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Doug - Iowa

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6 miles east of Marshalltown Iowa. This was beautiful corn 48 hours ago. Probably would have made 200 bu/a easy. Some of it stood back up a bit overnight. The crew working on my office building said they have already called in 30 grain bins destroyed.
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Where I live in northwest Iowa we missed the storm but I looked up at the sky when that went through as I was talking to my neighbor and I mentioned to him that is a very angry sky. The clouds looked like a soup of dark gray, light gray and white boiling in all directions. It reminded me of looking into my sprayer tank while the agitation is on. I really feel for those people. As I understand that part of the state had ample rain and the crops were looking exceptionally good.
 
wonder if it would be worth it to hire kids to walk every other row and pull the stalks upright- I had my garden corn flattened one time by wind, and found that just pulling them up as much as you can saved the crop- if you got the stalks off the ground, they straightened up enough to harvest on their own.
 
This pic was on FB--Story co. Iowa. What a mess! The Wife and I were coming out of Waterloo going East on 20 when the storm hit--We went north and drove out of it. We got a tenth of a in. of rain--No wind--lucked out--Feel bad for the guys 50 mi. south of us!---Tee
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Stupid question, but do you guys have insurance for things like that (wind damage)? Pictures of the grain bins are just incredible. Hopefully the rest of the year goes better out there!
 
It looks like that all the way to Des Moines.

I heard on radio they are saying something like 10 million acres damaged, this one got my corn.

House is up on PTO gen, they are talking at least a couple more days outage.

This is inside of neighbors shed, heard many more like this.

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wow that is terrible. Yea west of Fixerupper we only got 2/10ths of an inch of rain but yes watched the P-ed off clouds go by, was not pretty. Feel bad for you guys in eastern Iowa, hope everyone is ok.
 
Just drove through north Cedar Rapids & Marion, no power, no gas, no electricity or cafes open. almost EVERY tree was broken off or damaged...wasn't out of it even at Anamosa.
Leo
 
Wow!! Assuming there going to be able to harvest most of that crop one way or another, and with all the grain bins and dryers that must be damaged and only 6 weeks until harvest. Where they going to go with all that grain?
 
My BIL lives in Cedar Rapids. He said they had 90 MPH winds, and an extreme amount of tree wind damage. He had a few trees down, but otherwise OK. Good to hear that from him. Hope everyone recovers from this; crops look like a big loss (I am not a farmer, but can look at the images and only wonder at the damage done.) zuhnc
 
When I was a kid we had some major flooding, corn in the bottom land got flattened from the creek overflowing its banks. Within a week all straightened back up upright. Just had to be careful harvesting, would find an occasional log in the field.
 
Years ago, I saw a picture taken in the farm belt, during a bumper crop and I guess folks storing/holding over for better pricing, where it was just heaped in a big pile on the ground. My first assumption was what about weather contamination? Surely the folks that made the (huge) pile knew what they were doing. Never followed up on the subject.

In looking at the picture, it seems the whole row of silos were caved in.....some huge storage area no longer usable.
 
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