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[marketeye]

As the market focuses on South America weather this week, it won't be long before all eyes turn toward the U.S. planting weather. One of the hotspots will be the Missouri River and its 2012 flood chances. Will 2011 repeat itself? So far, the Army Corps of Engineers says the coast is clear, but don't get complacent.

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Thanks,

Mike

[Nebrfarmr]

All I know is that in the parts of Nebraska, where the levees broke, they are not anywhere near fixed yet.  The water is lower, but it won't take nearly as much of it, to start flooding again.

[kraft-t]

I can't imagine the extent of that mess and how much work to remedy it. Is there a good market for silt?

[toughguy189]

When I went to Kansas City first part of January, the scrapers and hoes were out working like crazy between glenwood IA, and the Mo border, I suspect they got most of the work done in that area with as mild a winter as we had until February. It also only took the contractors working on Iowa's I680 a month to tear out and completely rebuild the 2 mile stretch from I29 to the river.  I think a lot of the work has been done from Omaha to the south, don't know about further north.

[Roy_Smith]

The river brought very fine sand, not silt. Any small windstorm causes it to blow and drift. In some places there is too much to remove. The land will probably never produce again. It will be difficult to judge the amount of acres in that catagory. Some of the land was not very productive in the first place. The farm I have in that area is small, roughly 35 acrees. About half was under water all summer. Of that, we have probably an acre or two that will not be worth reclaiming. The area that did not catch the sand may be better than it was. The Omaha sewage plant dumped unprocessed stuff in the river all summer. No need for fertilizer there this year! ....soyroy