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In Arkansas, the Farm Bureau estimated that damage to the state's agriculture could top over $500 million as over one million acres of cropland are under water."It's in about ten feet of water," MBT Chapa SaleDyersburg, Tennessee, farmer Jimmy Moody said of his 440 acres of winter wheat, which was to be harvested in the approaching month.

Some officials said Thursday that spillover effects resulting from the water could threaten other industries. That includes the chance that the Waterford three nuclear power plant in Taft, Louisiana, MBT Sandals Salecould be closed, according to CNN affiliate WGNO.Other farmers in Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee & Arkansas rushed to salvage what wheat they could ahead of the rising water. As for corn, farmers who could get in to the fields in the coursework of a soggy planting season in late March & April are seeing their crops in some cases under several feet of water.

The Mississippi River is expected to crest at 26.6 feet in Taft on May 23. If it reaches 27 feet, officials told WGNO, the plant's water intake process could shutdown.Carl Rhode of Entergy, MBT Sport Salethe plant's operator, told WGNO that the threat to the intake process is not a matter of nuclear safety."It would impact every industry along the river," Welchel said. "That's something that is not simple for people to deal with, on a moment's notice."