North Dakota Insurance

”These are huge losses for us,”Cole Gustafson, mid-chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and the economic department at North Dakota State University, said the floods’ effects.”He did is not only losses, however, the effects on productivity in the future.”

The losses are especially pronounced along the Red River Valley. The Agriculture Department last week that 865350 hectares - 22 percent of the harvest on the production area of North Dakota River - were under water, the land is not expected to dry for week. Many crop fields along the river’s eastern border, Minnesota, is also saturated.

How do people of Grand Forks and other towns north of here, many farmers were forced to evacuate. And if it backwards, their problems are manifold. The flood waters are not only a new shift of the growing season, usually starts about now, but also a change in soil nutrients, a fact that Mr. Gustafson said hätte”langfristige consequences for agriculture as a whole.”

Any delay in planting, to a lesser performance. Farmers raised corn, for example, can expect to lose two bushels a day for each hectare of plantation postponed. Mr. Compson, raises, wheat and soybean, said he could lose $ 50000 to $ 100000 this year, depending on the speed with which the water.

In addition, the lost production is the likelihood that many farmers are higher premiums for crop insurance, their last harvest now net subsidies must be phased out and farm programs have been eliminated disaster chairman of the Confederation Act farm last year.

”It works just like car insurance,’’said Gustafson, North Dakota State. ”You have a number of accidents, according to prices quoted above. In this region, I am sure many farmers will have to pay a higher premium high risk. Or they are rejected.”

Mr. Compson, 51, a farmer for his years adults registered in his house by Horace lessons in the region of the last big flood in 1979, when the water has, in a period of nine inches of the Foundation. He built berms around the property after that flood, and this spring, they maintained that increasing the water level of River Rouge, as well as small Wild Rice and Sheyenne rivers, which are in the vicinity.

But its arable land is another story. ”I have not even been able, for all my fields,”he said. ”The roads to reach, they are still under water.”

Like many other farmers, representing Mr. Compson his crops, planting wheat on an area used last year for soybeans, and vice versa. But now the flood has thrown its draft rotation into chaos: he has no idea if any of his fields for planting.

”So many times on a farm near you and you work as hard as losing,”he explained. We now”by hail, floods, grasshoppers, drought, but you always find that the pit in your stomach, wondering how you for paying the bills.”

Senator Byron Dorgan L. of North Dakota, said this week that the total cost for the restoration of oil could exceed $ 1 billion, but state officials say they have no idea what the final agreement. Breeders, for example, might feel in years, the loss of livestock have been bred to reproduce.

And if small harvests stop farmers to buy new equipment, cities such as Fargo and Bismarck, supply centers for large companies will be affected.

Rod Backman, Director of the North Dakota Office of Management and Budget, said a team of economic forecasts of Pennsylvania was hired to begin assessing damage financiers. But experts do not expect that to arrive several days, and it could be weeks until their complete analysis.

At some point, Mr. Backman said that the tide is beginning to produce a number of benefits for the state. Towns must rebuild, and farmers new deliveries.

”Some of the losses,”he said, sounding board, like many other North Dakotans these days, tired and tired. ”But I do not know how many. At the moment, it seems difficult to imagine there could be more of that. But I know that not all negative.