Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 7/15/19

The Category 1 hurricane has brought more flooding to Gulf Coast states, prompting evacuations, causing power outages,swamping farmlands and stranding cattle. Barry weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday but continued dumping rain on Louisiana, pushing some rivers to dangerous levels.

Cargill and other agribusiness giants shuttered their Louisiana grain elevators last week as the storm bore down on the biggest ports for U.S. farm exports. Soybean, cotton and sugar cane fields were also in Barry's path. A heat wave is projected to hit the Midwest after the storm heads north, sending farmers on a roller-coaster ride of extreme weather, AccuWeather writes.

Heavy rainfall and flooding this year have already caused unprecedented delays in planting crops, as well as a major slowdown in barge traffic along the Mississippi River, a crucial waterway for grain shipments. (Damage estimates from the latest storm will likely take time for state officials to compile.)

The Mississippi River Delta region has faced some of the worst flooding, affecting farmers and other industries and causing problems like sewage backups and swarming mosquitoes. "This region will probably bear the lion's share of the cost when it's all said and done," Greenville, Miss., Mayor Errick Simmons said last month.