I found this info below about the bad harvest weather they are having in Mississippi.
" Mississippi Delta farmers are facing the worst crisis I have ever seen in my 68 years.The Mississippi Delta is a flat and fertile alluvial plain which - so the story goes - starts "in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg". For the past 150 years the main crop has been cotton, but today this is rapidly being replaced with soybeans, maize and rice. A tiny amount of wheat is also grown.The maize harvest is normally finished by early September. The cotton, soybean and rice harvest should by now (mid October) be almost over. However, the Delta has received 35 inches of rain in the past 30 days and thus the harvest for all of these crops is barely beginning. The maize has mostly been cut, but the fields which remain are now write-offs.The soybeans beans are rotting in the fields so that at best 50% of the crop will be saleable. I have seen many fields where the farmer will simply combine the crop but open his drum so wide that nothing will go into the tank. He will simply use the combine as a chopper to destroy the plants. The cotton is badly rain-stained and will be worth less than half the price of average quality cotton. The yield of cotton is around 40% of normal.The rice has fared somewhat better but the ruts left by the combines in the fields make the area look like First World War trenches.Many farmers simply won't survive this harvest, which is by far the worst they have known for two generations.It has been a profoundly sobering experience."
" Mississippi Delta farmers are facing the worst crisis I have ever seen in my 68 years.The Mississippi Delta is a flat and fertile alluvial plain which - so the story goes - starts "in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg". For the past 150 years the main crop has been cotton, but today this is rapidly being replaced with soybeans, maize and rice. A tiny amount of wheat is also grown.The maize harvest is normally finished by early September. The cotton, soybean and rice harvest should by now (mid October) be almost over. However, the Delta has received 35 inches of rain in the past 30 days and thus the harvest for all of these crops is barely beginning. The maize has mostly been cut, but the fields which remain are now write-offs.The soybeans beans are rotting in the fields so that at best 50% of the crop will be saleable. I have seen many fields where the farmer will simply combine the crop but open his drum so wide that nothing will go into the tank. He will simply use the combine as a chopper to destroy the plants. The cotton is badly rain-stained and will be worth less than half the price of average quality cotton. The yield of cotton is around 40% of normal.The rice has fared somewhat better but the ruts left by the combines in the fields make the area look like First World War trenches.Many farmers simply won't survive this harvest, which is by far the worst they have known for two generations.It has been a profoundly sobering experience."
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