By Chris Clayton
DTN Ag Policy Editor
SIDNEY, Iowa (DTN) — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig met with USDA officials from different agencies and local farmers Friday at the Silver Spur Bar & Grill but took his burger to go as everybody piled into trucks to see what the levees look like.
A year ago this week, a bomb cyclone hit as a surge of warm air from the Gulf of Mexico rolled into the central Plains and Midwest, causing a mix of snow, intense rainfall and snow melt that quickly ran off into rivers and streams. Dozens of towns and cities in Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa were quickly flooded, and within days, levees along the Missouri River were overwhelmed. Some flooded areas did not see water recede until last December, and water releases by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are still nearly three times their normal levels.
