Imagine if nearly everything you worked for was destroyed within moments.

That's exactly what local farmers are going through as severe weather wiped out crops across the WDAZ area. One farmer went to sleep, only to wake up and his find crops were gone. John Monson's family has farmed near Hatton, North Dakota for nearly 100 years. After Saturday evening, his livelihood is in jeopardy. Monson: "It's just an unbelievable event that guys should get so totally wiped out in one evening you know with the hail." Hail the size of golf balls rained on his 1,300-acre farm as winds blew through the crops, splitting most of his corn stalks and drowning many of his soybeans. He says his future depends on his insurance adjuster. Monson: "If they tell me that I have to harvest this there's just no way we can exist another year. We'd have to make some other plans." Now, with his future in jeopardy, this former Farmer of the Year is considering scaling back, and custom farming more of his land where another company plants the crops on his land, because this is something no farmer wants to go through. Monson: "600 acres of soybeans that are really banged up, and about 375 of corn that's pretty well totaled out." Monson is still waiting on his insurance company to come out and assess the damages he estimates are greater than $200,000. He says several other farmers in the area are dealing with the same situation. Source - http://www.wdaz.com