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Extreme climate impacts MO spring planting
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe says extreme climate has hit Missouri’s farmers and ranchers arduous this spring.
“I might say many of the Bootheel and surrounding counties shall be replanting. It’s important flooding that stayed on these fields for days and plenty of of these fields, not all, however many had been already planted,” he says. “The problem is now getting the soil dry sufficient to replant. Will probably be a difficult spring for farmers.”
Kehoe lately despatched a letter to the USDA, asking the company to supply federal catastrophe help to 27 counties in southern Missouri following damaging winds, extreme rains and flooding.
“I search for a fast response from them. We simply despatched the letter in the previous few days.”
He says the current rains are prone to make flooded fields worse. However Missouri Ag Director Chris Chinn says the rain additionally brings some much-needed moisture to the abnormally dry and reasonable drought areas of Missouri.
“It’s all Mom Nature’s timing and we’re longing for well timed rains with the correct amount of moisture transferring ahead.”
Brownfield interviewed Kehoe and Chinn on the Drive to Feed Youngsters on the Missouri Capitol.
