USDA payments for flood-spoiled grain in southwest Iowa bins

September 10, 2019 Carol Kuster State News 0

Iowa’s secretary of agriculture says the USDA disaster relief package unveiled Monday includes money for southwest Iowa farmers who had stored grain destroyed by this spring’s flooding. According to state officials, farmers in Fremont, Mills and Potawattamie Counties lost nearly $11 million worth of corn and soybeans when Missouri River floodwaters swamped their grain bins. […]