Posted on 08/13/2020 8:09:29 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The Iowa Department of Agriculture is estimating that ten million acres of cropland was impacted by Monday’s derecho windstorm.
The storm flattened millions of acres of corn in the central part of the state, but Iowa ag secretary Mike Naig says it’s too soon to say how much of the crop has been lost.
“The next week will tells us a lot about the fate of the crop,” Naig says. “There’s a lot of corn that’s laying down and some of that corn will still make a crop. It will be able to stand up and still produce. And other parts of the crop will, in fact, be damaged and will not be able to be harvested.”
Some analysts are estimating total corn losses from the storm could run as high as 300 to 400 million bushels.
Naig says the damage to grain storage facilities is also a big concern. He estimates “tens of millions of bushels” of commercial grain storage was destroyed or severely damaged, along with millions of bushels of on-farm storage.
“You’ll have these areas where you’ve damaged the on-farm storage and the commercial storage in a particular area—and so that will mean that producers may have to truck further and we may need to look at other alternatives for storage of that grain.”
My brother lives just north of Iowa City and says you can drive the roads and see fields and fields of corn all laying flat on the ground, soybeans stripped of leaves. Going to be a lot of losses this year.
Who had, ‘Flattened Cornfields in Iowa’ on their ‘2020 Disaster Bingo’ card?
This shiite REALLY needs to stop!
Epic year....
Wisconsin farmers have had the best growing season in years. Everything that could go RIGHT, did! Prices are even up a little bit.
And...WE’RE JINXED! ;)
That doesn’t count the crops in Illinois. We got hit by that storm where I am. Crawl space flooded. Roof damaged a bit. The garden was ok. One of the neighbors had his bathroom window blown out. Lots of wind in that one.
I’ll see if I can find a crop damage report from IL.
Relative in Coralville (by IA City) has roof damage, but overall very lucky.
We got a little of it in Omaha, just had tree branches down, nothing huge at my house.
We were hit by a Derecho, a storm system with straight line hurricane force winds for over .5 hours (115 miles per hour). The devastation resembles the aftermath of a hurricane. Thankfully few lives lost, but clean-up will take months
Are you in Iowa?
On the positive side, we were in NW Iowa this week and the corn looked fantastic, as well as the beans. It’s such a bumper crop this year that even with these loses, I would not be surprised if the farmers do well in spite of the damage.
Let us also remember that this type of storm is not an unusual occurrence in Iowa. It does happen from time to time.
China will be buying—everything...
“Let us also remember that this type of storm is not an unusual occurrence in Iowa. It does happen from time to time.”
No it doesn’t happen time to time. This was an extraordinary event once in a lifetime event.
Yes
My relative in Coralville said it was about 45 minutes.
Best Wishes for you and yours. Any help coming from the Feds? That was quite a swath of land destroyed. :(
We are in the Quad Cities (Iowa) and were without power for about 24 hours. We just minutes ago got our internet back, from Monday, early afternoon when it rolled through. Looked like a war zone around here in spots. We lost the top of our big Maple tree in the back yard but fortunately no structural damage to the house. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen. 90 mile an hour straight line winds.
Bad deal.
We had 110 mph shear winds when we lived near the NW Minnesota border.
Very much a park-like town, thick with trees...10,000 trees went down that eve, so they said.
That terrific wind sounded like a 747 taking off, then suddenly it stopped.
I can believe it. Trees down everywhere. Roads blocked with downed trees, electrical wires, traffic lights out - was quite an adventure getting home from work.I guess this thing went all the way from South Dakota to Ohio and Indiana. I’m still amazed I haven’t heard of any deaths around town - saw several pics of crushed cars and trees landing on houses. Most of the major stuff is cleaned up now but some people aren’t expected to get power back for a couple more days.
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