Flooding in Midwest Has Also Destroyed Millions of Acres of Crops. By Amy Lorentzen, AP, June 14, 2008. "Days after it rose out of its banks on its way to record flooding in Cedar Rapids, the Cedar River has forced at least 20,000 people from their homes, emergency officials said Saturday... The drenching has also severely damaged crops in America's No. 1 corn state and other parts of the Midwest at a time when corn prices are soaring. Dave Miller, a grain farmer and director of research for the Iowa Farm Bureau, estimated that up to 1.3 million acres of corn and 2 million acres of soy beans -- about 20 percent of the state's overall grain crop -- had been lost to flooding."
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