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Along Mississippi river, farmers feeling the brunt of record low water levels / 33YH9BQ
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For a second straight year a dearth of water in the Mississippi River has drastically curtailed river transport, and that means added costs and complications for the farmers of the US heartland. In Arkansas, Jonathan Driver works tirelessly to finish harvesting his crops and -- an added stress this year -- to find someplace to store tons of soybeans. The barges that in normal years would take his product downriver are in terribly short supply, slowing grain shipments to the Gulf of Mexico. The farmer found a temporary solution: grain bags -- enormous, long, tube-shaped plastic bags that can keep grain good for some time, hopefully until traffic picks up again on the Mississippi.
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