These once productive fields near Elaine Arkansas have been trashed by the flooding river - all of the rich soil & fertilizers are now blown out over the Gulf of Mexico somewhere between Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula! Photo by Delta Bohemian John Ruskey of Quapaw Canoe Company

These once productive fields near Elaine Arkansas have been trashed by the flooding river — all of the rich soil & fertilizers are now blown out over the Gulf of Mexico somewhere between Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula! Photo by Delta Bohemian John Ruskey of Quapaw Canoe Company