Iowa is America's largest producer of corn and soyabeans; 16% of the state's tillable acres were under water as of June 16th, according to the Iowa Farm Bureau.
The aim is to ensure no net loss of tillable fields.Chongqing is not the only place trying this out, but it is doing so on a provincial scale.
The nearest tillable land was on the lower eastern slopes of Devil's Peak and Table Mountain and, farther to the southeast, at Rondebosch, Newlands, and Wynberg.
More than 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) of potentially tillable land exist in Alaska, but only a small portion of the state's economy is agricultural, and most foods must be imported.
Throughout much of the state, subsurface drainage has been necessary to make wet soils tillable and productive.
Officials at his residence scoffed at his request to tear up the lawn behind the building, so he began canvassing the neighborhood for some tillable soil.
The most controversial of these programs are the $5 billion in annual so-called direct payments to farmers of corn, soybeans and other crops, awarded simply for owning tillable farm land, even if they do not plant on it.
The fenced-in 273-acre property also has 145 acres of tillable land, a two-acre lake, two springs, a two-story barn, a corral and a two-room guesthouse.
Of the 701 acres, 641 are tillable and 37 are wooded.
Chris Taylor, 64, and her husband, Shirley, 70, retired hospital workers who own a century-old 200-acre farm in the mining zone, drafted a contract with Western Kentucky last year, stipulating that once mining is completed, their land has to be made tillable.
