The storms that rolled through the upper Midwest late Monday and early Tuesday caused crop and farm structure damage.
Daniel Olson with Forage Innovations has several dairy clients across the country, and he’s been getting questions from them about what to do with certain crops. “If it’s just tipped, I’m hopeful that some of the stuff is going to stand back up.”
Olson says the worst damage he’s heard of so far is near Dyersville, Iowa and at a 13-thousand cow dairy near Beresford, South Dakota. “They had up to 130 mile an hour winds there, and over north of Souix Center, Iowa where it knocked a lot of corn down. There’s sorghum sudan that’s flat, and probably the biggest thing for that dairy is that they lost at least one parlor with some damage on a second.”
Olson tells Brownfield he’s heard from farmers from South Dakota to western Wisconsin reporting winds up to 130 miles per hour. He says he will be traveling to the storm-damaged region Wednesday to help farmers assess which crops can be saved and what can be planted now to provide livestock feed to replace the lost corn and sorghum Sudan.
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