Pointe Coupee Farmers Keep Growing Despite Uncertain Morganza Spillway Future: 'I'll Roll the Dice'
By Emma Kennedy, The Advocate, Baton Rouge
Morganza Spillway farmers who’ve been left in limbo for the last month are moving back onto their fields and farms despite the risk the floodgates might still be opened, purposely flooding their property to relieve pressure on the flood-swollen Mississippi River. “I’m not backing off on any what-ifs. I’ll roll the dice,” Pointe Coupee Parish corn and soybean farmer Ted Glaser said.