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ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

For Blake Gerard, a fourth-generation farmer working the flood-prone fields of the Mississippi River bottomlands in Alexander County, Ill., there was no sense in fighting nature.

“I could grow something that would grow in water,” he said. Or quit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-rice-soy-corn-flooding-mississippi-river?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Illinois#Farming#Agriculture#Climate#ClimateChange#Flood

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Alan Miller :verified_paw: 🇺🇦
@fencepost@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@ProPublica I wonder if he's in a position to provide services to others interested in growing rice in the area. If he has capacity for growth in processing equipment he had to buy for himself he may be able to sell that capacity.
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Anomie Train
@anomietrain@vocalounge.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@ProPublica I'm curious if his rice can compete with California's rice where they have lower arsenic levels than the rice grown in Louisiana and Texas.
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Matt Godden
@metaning@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@ProPublica @lisamelton Grow sugarcane for Ethanol, and basic manufactured carbohydrate ration units, that will be the bulk of the American diet in 15 years time?
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Morten Grøftehauge
@drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@ProPublica There was a Doonesbury about this back in the 90s. I think it's Mike's mom that planted rice and her crop wasn't destroyed. She watched Rambo movies to get tips from the rice farmers.
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Tim Zee
@ilust606@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@ProPublica
Growing rice in Illinois is now a thing.
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