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KMAland 2020 Overcoming Current Challenges in the Ag Community 15
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The last few years have floods on the Missouri tors which are more in-
certainly been challeng- River in 2011 and 2019. tensive such as animal
ing for ag in our area. All Large areas of farmland feeding. In that sector
of agriculture has suf- will be unusable for the there are some addi-
fered for the last 5+ years 2020 crop year due to tional problems which
from low prices and the soil saturation and land can be lumped under
trade war with China, as damage. Some repairs land use. Animal feed-
well as the retreat from will take years, if ever re- ing has changed in the
NAFTA. In addition, claimed. areas of pork and poultry
Jay W. Longinaker we have suffered in our There is also a labor production. Large inten-
President of Tri-Valley Bank area from the historic shortage in those sec- sive operations owned
