A farmer in west-central Minnesota was expecting a bumper

crop until a hailstorm shredded the area earlier this month.

Jamie Beyer of Wheaton says when she heard the hail hitting the window the night of July 8th, she knew it wasn’t good.

“And it lasted a long time. In our area we had quarter-sized hail, and the next morning we drove out and it looked like significant hail damage for a swath of about five miles by 20 miles.”

Beyer tells Brownfield she was shocked by the devastation.

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