Matt Widboom raises crops and cattle north of Worthington, Minnesota. “There’s a pretty small pocket that now has had over 30 inches of rain from April to the middle part of June,” said Widboom. “The subsoil moisture didn’t have room for any more rain and we got five-to-eight inches. The real trouble started with all of the runoff and ponding.” The infrastructure has suffered. “Our township crews were out early in the weekend and the few I talked to made it eight miles and they marked 38 open culverts that would need repair on the roadways.” The impact on agriculture is significant, but Widboom said it doesn’t compare to the loss of life and the small towns that are still under water in northwest Iowa. Listen to the interview.
