Post by Austin Stewart on Jun 16, 2009 20:47:55 GMT -5
We all knew it was going to happen sooner or later this year and it was sooner. 3 weeks from a bumper wheat harvest and 2 weeks after corn planting a large storm was approaching. So far all the bad weather had missed us and we had gotten a lot of rain setting us up for a great fall also.
We were some of the unlucky ones in our imediate area being caught in the middle of the worst of the hail streak which was only about 3 miles wide. Hail raning from pea to golfball and bigger came down hard for probably 5-10 minutes beating on everything from the roof (need new shingles now), to the pickups (a few more dents) to the corn (has to completely releaf) and the wheat which dropped bushels of kernels.
2 complete fields (around 140 acres) of corn are gone (one is completely stripped and the other still has a few leafs) plus a couple of the neighbor whom we plant for. 4 wheat fields were damaged but its to early to know exactly how much damage their is, just from the road you can see a large amount of dropped kernels laying on the ground but at least it is still standing to where we can harvest the rest.
The worst part is that we are a supplier of seedwheat for over a dozen farmers so we wont be able to sell to all of them since we wont have as much.
The wheat was insured but I am unsure of why dad did not insure the corn also, it truly makes no sense to me to insure one and not the other.
Anyways some pictures of the aftermath, I wish I had some before pictures to show you but I kept putting off that picture taking trip.
This hail was a good hour after the storm had already passed through
Some wheat located 1/2 mile from our house which was in the worst part of the hail (its hard to tell very much from the pictures but the wheat has been thinned out a lot and is missing a lot of kernels.
Some of a neighbors corn across the road from the wheat in the above picture
The worst field of corn we have now
another picture of more of the field
Some wheat across the road from the above pictured corn (not our wheat thankfully)
Our wheat that sits beside the corn 2 pictures above and across the road from the wheat pictured above (amazing what different varieties can withstand isnt it?)
Another picture of someone elses wheat
We were some of the unlucky ones in our imediate area being caught in the middle of the worst of the hail streak which was only about 3 miles wide. Hail raning from pea to golfball and bigger came down hard for probably 5-10 minutes beating on everything from the roof (need new shingles now), to the pickups (a few more dents) to the corn (has to completely releaf) and the wheat which dropped bushels of kernels.
2 complete fields (around 140 acres) of corn are gone (one is completely stripped and the other still has a few leafs) plus a couple of the neighbor whom we plant for. 4 wheat fields were damaged but its to early to know exactly how much damage their is, just from the road you can see a large amount of dropped kernels laying on the ground but at least it is still standing to where we can harvest the rest.
The worst part is that we are a supplier of seedwheat for over a dozen farmers so we wont be able to sell to all of them since we wont have as much.
The wheat was insured but I am unsure of why dad did not insure the corn also, it truly makes no sense to me to insure one and not the other.
Anyways some pictures of the aftermath, I wish I had some before pictures to show you but I kept putting off that picture taking trip.
This hail was a good hour after the storm had already passed through
Some wheat located 1/2 mile from our house which was in the worst part of the hail (its hard to tell very much from the pictures but the wheat has been thinned out a lot and is missing a lot of kernels.
Some of a neighbors corn across the road from the wheat in the above picture
The worst field of corn we have now
another picture of more of the field
Some wheat across the road from the above pictured corn (not our wheat thankfully)
Our wheat that sits beside the corn 2 pictures above and across the road from the wheat pictured above (amazing what different varieties can withstand isnt it?)
Another picture of someone elses wheat
