The Iowa Corn Growers Association is working with its Congressional delegation get disaster aid for stored flooded grain. Iowa Corn Growers President Curt Mether farms near Logan in southwest Iowa where the March flood hit. He says any help they can get would be appreciated.
He says most of his neighbors in the low-lying areas of Harrison County were severely damaged by the flooding. Mether’s farm is in better shape in the hilly area of the county, but he was hampered from hauling grain.
Mether doesn’t think many of the growers in his area will be able to get into the fields to plant anytime soon.
The U.S. Senate took another stab at passing a disaster aid bill but that failed and now they’re on recess for two weeks. So, there’ll be no movement anytime soon to help flood victims from the federal government. Mether says they continue to work with NCGA in lobbying Congress to get something done.
