A derecho brought 100-mile-per-hour winds to portions of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana a week ago. While there is crop damage, it does not compare the $11 billion losses seen in Iowa four years ago. Nutrien Ag Solutions meteorologist Eric Snodgrass says the amount of weather-related damage this season is accumulating. “When you add it to the severe weather we’ve seen lately like the Northern Plains hit with two days in a row of both hail and straight-line wind in early July; the hail event that just widened out acreage south of the North Platte River, which is right along I-80 in Nebraska, we’re really starting to see some depletion in the acreage potential for this crop and now the yields should be hurt a little bit as well.”
