Another central NE hail photo.

Not my field.
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It was real sad to see. It looks like the storm cut a 5 mile wide swath for about 30 miles or so. We drove through the town of Gibbon yesterday and saw all the broken windows and ruined siding. Ravenna, NE is just as bad. The trees are practically bare and it looks like fall. The fields look like the beans have been cut and the corn combined or cornpickers had been through.
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Yes, it is a sad mess. This storm ran all the way south to around Red Cloud, so it made it about 100 miles!

There have been so many different areas of NE that have been hit with hail and storms this year.

Most of the crops around me have made it this far without irrigation.

In Feb. it was so dry that I was considering not even planting my non-irrigated acres.
 
Yep, it actually started up around Ord...I didn't realize it kept going strong all the way down to Red Cloud. That's a lot of devastation.
 
I was listening to Ogallala radio talk about that storm for a couple hours when it was south of North Platte. Switched over to McCook when it started getting closer (and the lightning was flashing all around the boss and I as we finished filling the cart) and it took them almost another hour to mention the storm. And then if it wasn"t for a cell coming straight south through Wellfleet at the time, they never would have mentioned it. Weather never happens in Frontier and Lincoln counties, I guess.

Then after they made a big deal of it, everything went east and completely missed McCook.
 
Clodbuster, I think I know what your answer will be, but is there any way some of that corn could be picked up, (by machine) and made into silage or something? Or, I guess if they had crop insurance, they will just have to leave it lay.
 
Dang, I have good friends who farm fairly big by Ord. Wonder how they made out.

I had to go to Wayne, NE on Thursday, and Highway 15 took my right past the west side of Pilger. That was a sad sight, about like Beaver Crossing. There were three HUGE piles of rubble on an empty lot. I'm not even sure how they got it piled that high.
 
If you have insurance you have to wait at least 10 days and then wait for the adjustment to happen, usually much later....

In one or two days after the hail you can smell the rotting starting to take place.

I don't know if any of the standing stalks in other fields will be chopped, but of course with no ears there is little feed value compared to mature corn.
 
I think the storm just started developing over Ord. I don"t think much happened to them. You"re in the crop adjustment business if I remember right? You might be real busy.
 

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