(Lakefield, Mn.)– While there’s some leaning corn out there, a local ag expert says the crops managed to escape any major damage in the extremely high wind that accompanied some severe storms in the region early Tuesday. Jim Nesseth is with Extended Ag Services in Lakefield…
“The fields that we’ve observed so far we haven’t seen a lot of green snap and so it’s just leaning corn. So I think corn just wants to stand tall and proud and I think it’s going to do that yet. We’ll have a little challenge I think maybe through some harvest but I think as a whole I don’t think we have a lot stand loss. Part of that I think was because we had prior to this warmer weather we have now, it was a little cooler so we didn’t have a lot of rapid growth there and so I think the corn was just a little bit more flexible and not as brittle so I think that was a real positive. On the soybean side of course the wind didn’t really bother that and they’re in full bloom. Things are looking real good there.”
Nesseth says the exception would be the oats crop. He says the severe weather caused considerable lodging in those fields.
Nesseth says some producers did report extensive damage to some outbuildings and grain bins from the recent storms.
He says thankfully there was no hail with the extreme wind or things would have been MUCH worse.
