North Dakota Oil Boom Hurts Farming
By Chris Riback
Posted August 26, 2014 at 5:00amThe New York Times reports that “the furious pace of energy exploration in North Dakota is creating a crisis for farmers whose grain shipments have been held up by a vast new movement of oil by rail, leading to millions of dollars in agricultural losses and slower production for breakfast cereal giants like General Mills.”
“The backlog is only going to get worse, farmers said, as they prepared this week for what is expected to be a record crop of wheat and soybeans.”