One of the nation’s top crop-producing states experienced an historic weather year in 2020.
Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig tells Brownfield there was the derecho wind event in August sandwiched between an expansive drought.
“We haven’t seen this kind of dryness since 2012, and it was very widespread. Ninety-nine percent of the state of Iowa was in a drought classification at one point or another during the last year.”
That should grab the attention of farmers across the country being that Iowa is the top corn producer in the U.S.
