A weekend storm impaled several west central Illinois fields with 60 mph winds and baseball sized-hail.
“We had hail all the way from half dollar sized to baseball. It was really sharp and ragged stuff too.”
Mt. Sterling farmer Wade Yingling tells Brownfield his agronomist estimates 60-70% leaf and stalk damage to 1,000 acres of their corn and soybeans that were hit.
“Where it is bad, it is very bad and in other places it’s not as bad, but it is still hard to look at.
