
Lingering Effects of Flooding Impacting Farmers
Clip: Season 3 Episode 191 | 2m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
There are lingering effects of recent flooding that are impacting farmers, both small and large.
There are lingering effects of heavy rain and flooding in Kentucky, including for farmers. It's impacting both small and large-scale operations. Laura Rogers spoke to a couple of producers in Warren County.
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Lingering Effects of Flooding Impacting Farmers
Clip: Season 3 Episode 191 | 2m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
There are lingering effects of heavy rain and flooding in Kentucky, including for farmers. It's impacting both small and large-scale operations. Laura Rogers spoke to a couple of producers in Warren County.
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There are lingering effects of heavy rain and flooding, flooding in Kentucky, including for farmers.
It's impacting both small and large scale operations.
Our Laura Rogers spoke to a couple of producers in Warren County and has this report.
We raised ducks, chickens, geese and quail.
Hailey Neese of Bowling Green has more than 100 birds.
I really wanted to build, like a peaceful lifestyle here where I can provide eggs to the community.
That peaceful lifestyle was disrupted during recent flooding.
Throughout the day, the water kept getting higher.
It came up to about 40 feet.
Niece and her fiancee live about 300 yards from the Barron River.
I was definitely surprised.
I really couldn't believe it when we saw it.
But typically looks like this they're.
Run was completely underwater.
Looks like this.
After record rainfall this past Saturday, February 15th.
They could.
Have drowned.
Luckily, Neese took precautions.
It was pretty stressful moving them.
Moving her 20 ducks, two geese and a rooster uphill to the chicken run.
After we moved them, we couldn't even get to the run because the water was so deep already.
We raised corn, soybeans and wheat.
Ronnie Cancer is a grain farmer in Warren County.
We've probably got some wheat under water.
We'll probably get some damage.
Owner of wheat.
Crop.
He had two calves born during the downpour and lost one of them.
The rain just so hard and everything.
And it was just born during the storm and didn't make it.
Kansas says too much rain last year left him with 100 acres of corn and beans he couldn't plant.
They would just rot and the ground would never sprout.
When germinate.
He's now just hoping weather conditions improve leading into spring.
If it was a month from now, then it'd be really getting critical for getting the crop planted.
But right now, not too bad.
You know, we just wait for go down and when it dries up, we'll get busy.
But in the meantime, Hailey niece is busy cleaning up a muddy mess.
It looks like some of our things are missing, so we might have to find those.
We really won't know until we get in there.
But I'm thinking I'm going to have to dig everything out and replace it.
That's her ducks.
Chickens and geese live in close quarters.
It's really crowded in there right now, and they don't have all the space they're used to.
She says it'll take a couple of weeks to get everything cleaned up and somewhat back to normal.
I was really thankful we got the nod of there.
Or Kentucky Edition.
I'm Laura Rogers.
Thank you.
Laura Hailey says she was concerned the stress of relocating her ducks would affect egg production, but thankfully that hasn't been the case.
AG experts say it's going to be a hard year for grain farmers with market prices, and this flooding gets us off to a tough start.
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