LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas farmers are waiting for floodwater to recede so they can get to stranded cattle and assess damage to infrastructure and newly planted crops a week after storms dropped more than a foot of rain.
The storms that swept the state April 2-6 produced tornadoes and heavy rain across Arkansas and much of the Mid-South. The National Weather Service reported that 8.75 inches fell in Jonesboro, Arkansas. In Little Rock, more than 5 inches fell in a matter of hours, triggering a rare flash flood warning for the area.
In the days after the rains subsided, rivers swelled over their banks, and many producers throughout the state found their fields saturated, if not underwater outright. The flooding has also closed numerous state and U.S. highways across Arkansas…