Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Frequent Floods Force Farmers to Rethink Age-Old Practices

Frequent Floods Force Farmers to Rethink Age-Old Practices






"In 2008, Katy Lince watched the vegetables she had nurtured at Hawthorne Valley Farm in upstate New York float down a rushing river that days before had been a peaceful creek nowhere near her crops.
"We thought, that was a weird flood," said Lince, the farm's field vegetables manager. "That's not going to happen again."
It did. The next year..."

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