An Illinois fruit grower has only been able to produce 40% of his peach crop this year and flooding in west central Illinois is forcing him to transport his crop to be sold elsewhere. Tim Ringhausen, a fifth-generation fruit grower in Calhoun County, tells Brownfield a nearby levee was topped, filling his fruit packing shed with 20 feet of water. “I’ve got a pretty fair little peach crop myself but no shed to sell it out of.
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