Max Armstrong looks back on the derecho that rolled across 700 acres the Midwest. Max shares insight from Bill Northey an Iowa farmer who is now the Undersecretary of Agriculture at USDA. Northey shared that his farm "dodged the bullet" of that storm. Max shares some of the variations of the impact of the corn and what that may mean for the 2020 harvest.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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