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In agriculture, especially growing fruit and vegetables, margins have long been tight, with labor costs and drought causing headaches. But now supply chain issues and the war in Eastern Europe have driven fuel and fertilizer prices way up. And farmers are having to make tough choices.
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As climate change worsens flooding across the Midwest and South, crop insurance payments on waterlogged land have surged 300 percent in recent decades. That number will likely rise.
A study by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group named Lee and Phillips counties among 41 "hot spot" flooding areas along the Mississippi River.
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Mar. 23— Iowa farmers received $243 million in insurance payments for flooded crops from 2001 to 2020, with $83 million of that going to farmers in five Iowa counties considered "hot spots" for flood crop insurance payments, according to an analysis by the Environmental Working Group. Flooding is a major issue in the Mississippi River basin, as Iowa's river...