Iowa Flood Will Add to Food Woes

We, from the midwest, know that Iowa is a major producer of corn. We also know that corn is used in some way, shape or form in practically everything we eat. That includes feeding cattle, chickens and hogs. With food shortages already causing panic and riots throughout the impoverished world...how may this 500 yr flood worsen this situation? Check out a few of these paragraphs from the LA Times;

"Iowa Gov. Chet Culver on Friday declared 83 of Iowa's 99 counties disaster areas as rivers either reached or were expected to hit historic levels -- flowing over soil already saturated from an extremely wet spring."

Or this one;

"Miles of fields with fledgling corn plants have been inundated, their green sprouts swallowed up by water the color of coffee. The rising floodwaters lapped at the bottoms of highway billboards."

With miles of Iowa corn underwater, the world's food problems will certainly multiply.