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Fargo, Red River Valley Bracing for More Flooding
USAgNet - 03/26/2019

As the U.S. Midwest braces for record flooding, cities and towns along the Red River in Minnesota, North Dakota and Manitoba are preparing for a deluge of their own as the heavy snows of winter start to melt.

Winnipeg Free Press reports that Fargo, N.D., has declared an emergency and ordered one million sandbags, calling on residents to volunteer to fill the sacks that will be used to make temporary walls to hold back the river. In Canada, the Manitoba government has been predicting the Red River would flood for weeks. Wheat prices jumped amid threats to grain shipments.

The Red River forms the border between North Dakota and Minnesota and flows north into Manitoba, passing through downtown Winnipeg. Its banks are flanked by farm fields. North Dakota is the second-largest American wheat grower, trailing Kansas, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The river in Fargo reached a record 3.3 metres above major flood stage in March 2009 and saw heavy flooding again in 2010.

This week, flooding has already snarled rail traffic in much of the Great Plains, slowing or halting shipments of grain. Buyers of spring wheat were paying lofty premiums for supplies in the cash market, which pushed up futures, said Adam Knosalla, a broker at Frontier Futures in Minneapolis.


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