Storms that hammered much of South Australia's grain-growing regions yesterday could potentially cost farmers millions of dollars. The true extent of grain downgrades will not be known until paddocks dry out and the grain starts to flow into the silos once again. But some farmers near Redhill in the Mid North are already counting the cost of hail damage after a storm pelted the area on Wednesday afternoon. Farmer Ben Mumford was unfortunate enough to be under that storm and says it was terrifying. "We had a little bit of rain, then down it came," he said. "We were working here in the yard and we got under the tin roof to get out of the rain. Then it started to hail and it just hammered down, it just hammered down. "The wife was there and I put my arm around her because that's what we were feeling at the time and it was just ridiculous. We put our hands over our ears. It was that loud." Mr Mumford said he had never experienced anything like it. "I've experienced a thunderstorm with hail back in 1992-1993, but nothing like this. This was just a bastard, nasty storm that came through," he said. "We started to clean the mess up here; we had cows under water and all sorts of troubles. "Then we saw the police followed by the ambulance and the CFS head down the highway, so we went down there and there'd been a crash. A truck had rear-ended a car. "We got down there and ended up pulling cars out of the mud on the side of the road." Mr Mumford said his grain crops took a battering, but he was thankful it was not worse. "It's just disappointing to come home and look through the wheat crops and the amount of hail damage is just disappointing," he said. "We work too hard for the year to just lose it like that, but we've got insurance and nobody got hurt. "It won't end us or anything like that. "There's plenty of blokes in the Mallee who don't have a crop at all, so we're certainly counting our blessings." Source - http://www.abc.net.au