NE South Dakota Clark, SD | Farmspec - 5/16/2021 07:51
All of that tile that has been installed in the Midwest has turned the lower Mississippi River into a Floodway. The water gets here much faster than in the past. It’s destroyed our Deer Habitat inside of the Levee. So the Deer have moved outside of the Levee. Hard to grow Soybeans just outside of the Levee.
I am a drainage guy, so I am sure I am biased and may get flamed for this. I see one of the biggest downstream issues is building up levees and not using the flood plains as they were designed. There has been a lot of pressure from farmers that farm and have built bins and farms in these flood plains. When you find the low point in the levee and build it up, it pushes the problem further down stream until it finds the next lowest spot. Repeat the cycle enough times and the problem builds on itself. |
Why are Corn Yields so poor in the Mississippi Delta?
