date:Nov 07, 2012
situation less ominous than what it could have been.
The Virginian-Pilot newspaper is reporting that agricultural damage in the Chesapeake Bay area was minimal, estimating potential damage to 2,000 acres of small grains, including wheat, barley and oats. Some wheat that farmers in Virginia Beach just planted will be included in that number. In Virginias Suffolk and Western Tidewater region, where 60 per cent of the cotton crop has not been harvested, Sandy could have been disastrous. Fortunate