Max Armstrong notes that the impact of the derecho may not have been just in Iowa, but was centered in the Hawkeye State. Max notes that ag officials in the state are working to determine how much storage was loss. And for farmers, every acre of corn in the scope of that storm has been impacted, which will challenge harvest.

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Photo: Meaghan Anderson, Iowa State University