Community Support Seen in the Storm’s Aftermath

At New Salem, North Dakota, Andrew Doll is praising the community for assisting with the cleanup from the June 20th storm. Straight-line winds destroyed a calving barn and a free-stall barn. Machinery was tossed around, and crops were damaged. With soybeans that are planted into corn stubble, it seems like the wind picked up the corn trash and sheared the beans off at ground level; the edible beans were the same way.”  The Doll family is now weighing the options for the future. “That farm is my Mom and Dad’s, and they’re in their late 60s; a decision hasn’t been made yet, but there’s a lot of hard conversations going on right now about the future,” said Doll. “You don’t want Mother Nature making your decisions for you in agriculture because it eliminates a lot of your options, and a lot of the outcomes are not desirable.”