By Maura Bennett
Hurricane Ida marked the fourth hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic season.
Farmers from the central plains to the southeast will likely feel long-term the damaging effects of Ida.
KNOX: “An issue that is not a direct influence on agriculture in the southeast but is a big problem is that Hurricane Ida coming onshore in eastern Lousiana damage a lot of storage and transportation facilities which means it’s really bottlenecked a lot of the grain that’s been coming down from the central part of the US and so that’s really messed up the markets. So even though the weather didn’t affect us too much directly, it really caused a big impact on the markets. And that’s something farmers have to worry about because they have to sell what they grow.”