As Congress considers rural aid in next stimulus bill, survey shows how much 2019's wild weather hurt rural Nebraska - Entrepreneur Generations

As Congress considers rural and agricultural aid for the next stimulus bill, a new poll illustrates how rural areas in the farming state of Nebraska were already hurting before the pandemic because of the record wet weather in 2019. Other Midwestern states could be in a similar condition.

According to a recently released annual survey from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Agricultural Economics, severe weather harmed more than half of Nebraska's rural communities in 2019.

"Last year, flood damage in the state was estimated at more than $1.3 billion, including $449 million in damage to roads, levees and other infrastructure. Twenty-seven bridges were damaged," The Grand Herald Independent reports. "Agricultural damages included $440 million in crop losses; and $400 million in cattle losses. Livestock losses included 700 hogs who drowned on a farm near Fremont."

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