Post Laura Damage Assessment and Clean-Up Continues

By Kane Webb

USA Rice

The effects on the rice industry following Hurricane Laura continue to be felt across the mid-South, and particularly in southwest Louisiana where some harvesting has resumed, and yields there are telling a before and after story.

With most of the rice crop in Louisiana’s southern region harvested at the time the storm hit on August 27, concerns here immediately switched to getting power to drying facilities to maintain the crop for quality.  Some isolated areas are still on generator power, but until things return to a more “normal” state, concerns in the region continue to evolve through the transition from pre-storm to post-storm.

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