Historic flooding in Midwest damages farms, leading to concerns over food prices impact

Catastrophic flooding that hit the Midwest includes millions of acres of vital farmland in the nation's corn belt, leading to concerns that food prices could be impacted. Many farmers told CBS News they have crop insurance, but it doesn't even cover their losses for things like irrigation, fertilizer and labor.
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[@quarrycliff]

Food prices? You really need to report more accurately and say food & fuel prices as at least 40% of the corn crop is strictly for producing ethanol.

[@CormacHolland]

And less than 10% is actually grown for human consumption.

[@justagirlsd3000]

Right? But food corporations will use this to raise prices.

[@viewer-of-content]

This is actually an area with significant pork and chicken processing. You could see prices go up 5% based on supply chain hickups for exports. Sioux Falls for instance has the second largest pork processor plant, and gets its pigs from much of the flooded area. Sioux Falls ships a lot of its pork out across the USA including to States as far as California

[@leiag201]

I feel sorry for the animals. The goats the chickens the rabbits the horses.

[@feliatene757]

Last year was drought and food prices went up, this year its flood and food prices are going up, next year food prices will go up just keep consistency

[@Rick-qf5de]

Corporate farming... They're in cahoots and raises their prices, almost like a non-compete contract. And that 30% tariff on all goods coming into the US was pure BS , the American companies raise their prices 40%.

[@eddiefniii]

@@Rick-qf5dethen grow your own! Problem solved. Drill a well for water.

[@gvinnydog5500.]

I am going to face starvation in Minnesota! I am single with no dependants. I had a window company quote me 16000 dollars for 4 windows, which I need, because they are 20 years old and have mildew on them. Got get them replaced because then you die of mold. I don't think I will survive the winter without food!

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

Think of all the manure Pitts on those farms flooding....

[@justagirlsd3000]

😬🤮

[@Callsmit]

Oh they will prices one way or another

[@manwingchi9156]

Now, who laughing 😃 😀 😄

[@MrMarklanders]

C'EST 'REMARKABLY' MAGNIFIQUE. FEU A VOLONTE.

[@xjarheadjohnson]

How much Soy & Corn do people actually eat?

[@Retro_Gamer_89]

Here we go smh 🤦

[@tiboregoldberger6817]

Historic what part of History what part of History are we looking at historic from January to August 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂 0:34

[@OppenheimerRanchProject]

GMO Corn and Soybean's are not food, get a clue. Good riddance.

[@lyraserpentine894]

Too bad about the lost crops, but we need to adapt to climate change, and that means abandoning industrial agriculture in favor of vertical farming (and other practices). Otherwise, get used to starving.

[@Jc-ms5vv]

No adapting to a dying planet

[@Dobrinich]

Always go to Climate Change. Did you forget about 93??? The same thing happened......

[@rwhunt99]

Typical reporting, - lets throw in the fear factor of increased prices, it's fun to stir people up in the morning! Every time they do that inevitably it happens because business loves those stories and immediately they raise prices, Greed is a beautiful thing.

[@user-nv8nt6gm2d]

Stop burying your head in the sand. We have fkd up this planet. You don’t get to treat Mother Earth like a toilet and expect no consequences, anymore. Nature can’t take anymore. Maybe all these disasters are Earth’s immune response to us. We act so much like a cancer on it.

[@user-lh5re8jh7u]

Geoengineering

[@janedoe41276]

Why go to South Dakota for interviews on flood damage?? You have PLENTY of people experiencing flood damage in your own state! I am living in a Minnesota town that had damage, we could use some acknowledgment & assistance.

[@liamjohnson2474]

1:33 we don't make paint here or soap or seat or tires, they only thing we make in large quantities is gas. those MAGA farmer have insurance and if they had voted for people who believed in climate change, their crops wouldn't be ruined. It's hard to feel bad for people that don't vote to keep their land

[@user-lh5re8jh7u]

You have been psyoped

[@Michael-dk5kh]

Grow some rice?

[@user-bg9bk6ov5j]

God Bless, American Farmers. ❤

[@user-nv8nt6gm2d]

No thanks. All that corn and soy they plant is subsidized by us, and they poison everything to grow it,and most of it goes to feed the tortured animals in the factory meat farms, anyway.

[@69judge27]

ALMIGHTY GOD IS NOT PLAYIN ' WITH YOU PEOPLE 😎🎸

[@risa_sh.youtube3244]

🙏🎯🌍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 The world 🌍 has changed **Nam myoho rengekyo** 🙏 Pray 🌍 peace 🕊️ be safe ______// X2 Thai**Sh_sa ///////

[@user-nv8nt6gm2d]

Wow! Farming depends on stable climates??? That sounds “woke” to me!🤔😒

[@1diggitech]

All done of purpose

[@user-nv8nt6gm2d]

How so? You know, 200 yrs of treating Mother Earth like a toilet catches up with you, sooner or later. You pay the Piper for what you do to this planet, one way or another.

[@1diggitech]

​@@user-nv8nt6gm2dExactly mistreating Mother Earth as you said like depleting minerals, flooding lands, poison the waters,block the water ways, contaminate the livestock feeds amongst things that's why I think it's done on purpose

[@DimitriosChannel]

Lol blaming climate change. Gotta love propaganda. WEF and China and Brandon if you're reading this, well played.

[@LostMySauce]

When 100 year floods turn into 15 year floods, something's up dude

[@DimitriosChannel]

@@LostMySauce The water was shut off for 5 hrs due to Obama's homeboy Kaleo Manuel! He admitted it due to water equity belief.

[@feliatene757]

It’s climate change, you can deny it but it’s happening.

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

Big coal and big oil doing everything to squash "climate change".... follow the money

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

That's Trump country... maybe God is trying to send them a message?