Mother Jones: Farmers have always lived with what the novelist Henry James called the "imagination of disaster"--the keen sense that there's always something, anything, that can go wrong. In that long interval between sowing tiny seeds and reaping valuable crops, droughts, floods, plagues of pests, tumbling trees, ravaging beasts--all threaten your livelihood and haunt your dreams. But the last seven years have been ridiculous. In 2005, the sixth-most powerful hurricane ever recorded blitzed into the Mississippi...
URL: http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/10/yet-another-landmark-storm-underscores-need-resilience-ag
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