Wednesday 21st May 2025

Farmers are assessing damage from a derecho that damaged parts of the Western Corn Belt on Thursday.

“All of a sudden it hit and I couldn’t see.  It turned like it was black as midnight.”

Northeast Nebraska farmer Jim Miller tells Brownfield he was planting when a wall of dust quickly closed in. “I turned the lights on the tractor and I couldn’t see 20 feet in front of the tractor.

   

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