Many Iowa farmers won’t soon forget the storm that brought hurricane-force winds tearing across the state in August.

Iowa Farm Bureau president Craig Hill tells Brownfield it will take a long time to recover from the derecho.

“To rebuild the buildings, the grain bins, the infrastructure that was destroyed.”

He says the impact to crops can be measured by harvest results and crop insurance claims.

“But a lot of the property damage has yet to be rebuilt.

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