A lot of northwest Missouri farmers had to scramble to get livestock,
grain and hay out of way of rising water. Atchison County farmer Richard Oswald
was among those surprised by the rapid increase in flows following a dam
failure in Nebraska.
“I think Monday morning nobody in my area really suspected anything like this
was going to happen,” Oswald told Brownfield Ag News, “the first reaction is
disbelief ‘that can’t be right, the river’s going to go from 30 feet to 48 feet
in a couple of days, that can’t be right; that’s just not right,’ but it became
apparent that it was right.”
The additional challenge is the difficulty in moving what had to be taken to
higher ground.
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