Morganza Flow Will Wipe Out Crops; Abraham, Delegation Ask USDA for Help

By Greg Hilburn, The News Star, Monroe

Louisiana's congressional delegation has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help farmers whose crops are in the path of the Morganza Spillway, which will be opened Sunday and wipe out anything planted in the Atchafalaya River Basin floodway. Congressman Ralph Abraham, R-Alto, Louisiana's only member of Congress on an agriculture committee, led the delegation's request.