His calculation using local grain prices puts the financial loss at more than $7 million in grain alone. ASSOCIATED PRESS A neighborhood in Bellevue, Nebraska, is flooded by waters from the Missouri River. The flooding is expected to continue throughout the week in several states as high water flows down the Missouri River. Swollen rivers have already breached more than a dozen levees in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. In all, Nebraska Farm Bureau President Steve Nelson estimated $400 million of crop losses from fields left unplanted or planted late and up to $500 million in livestock losses.

Source: Huffington Post March 20, 2019 08:03 UTC