Receding Missouri River reveals badly damaged land

Friday, September 23, 2011

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- As the Missouri River slowly recedes, farmers seeing their fields for the first time since June are encountering sand dunes, strange debris and deep gouges the floodwaters carved into their once-fertile land.

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