WATCH: Farmers waiting 4-5 hours to get grain, due to Mississippi River water levels WATCH: Farmers waiting 4-5 hours to get grain, due to Mississippi River water levelsTUNICA, MS. — Prices at the grocery store could increase if the Mississippi River water levels continue to drop and cause havoc for farmers. RELATED: Dropping Mississippi River levels affect your walletIt’s an unprecedented scene outside a grain elevator on Mhoon landing road in Tunica County. Large lines of traffic, trucks loaded with soybeans, and farmers trying to get their goods dumped, on barges, and shipped out. Many farmers and drivers said they can’t get their grain to barges at any other grain elevator because the water is too low. ”Well if the farmers can’t get the crops out then it will mess up everything, food prices will go up, fuel prices will increase,” Ward Corbin of lambert said.

Source: CNN October 11, 2022 17:55 UTC