On 8/14/20 2:30 PM, dpb wrote:
On 8/13/2020 7:27 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
Â*Â*Â* About a third of Iowa's crops are damaged.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/derecho-iowa-crop-land-farmland-midwest-damage-severe-weather-corn-soybean-disaster-10-million

Farmers have insurance but now they can argue with the insurance
companies.
Â*Â*More pictures from the Des Moines Register.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/weather/2020/08/10/derecho-storm-iowa-city-damage-power-outage/3338604001/

Â*Â*This storm has an unusual name, derecho.Â*Â* It was a straight wind,
not tornadoes, that did this.

Listen to the AgriTalk radio in AM; the head of the IA Co-operatives
association said just one of their member co-ops lost over 200 large
grain bins.Â* That'll wreak havoc with harvest only a short time away;
some of these facilities may not be able to have any operational storage
other than ground/tube by then...

I bet the guys selling corn reels and roller cones for the corn
heads will be busy.
The coops here can get away with just piling corn on the ground
temporarily if need be. Average precipitation is about 25"/year.