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Colorado floodwaters menace state's $41 billion agriculture sector
2013-09-20 12:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Colorado farmers and ranchers are bracing for widespread damage to the agriculture industry, one of the state's leading economic engines, from deadly floodwaters that already have caused property losses estimated at nearly $2 billion. The main concern is for the state's No. 1 cash crop, corn, which yields between 140 million and 180 million bushels annually, most of it for cattle feed, according to the growers' trade association, Colorado Corn. Cornfields along the flooded South Platte River...
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