With the recent bouts of severe weather throughout the Raccoon Valley Radio-listening area, some farmers may be seeing damage to their crops. 

Dallas County Extension Field Agronomist Meaghan Anderson offers some suggestions for those farmers who may have suffered crop damage from the recent storms. 

“Certainly being in touch with their crop insurance agent and if they have insurance that will cover that hail, having an adjuster out to look at that as soon as possible. They will probably be doing a lot of that looking around here in the next week or so. That’s probably the biggest thing.”

Anderson tells Raccoon Valley Radio it is most likely too late in the season for farmers to replant their crops, so insurance companies may want farmers to keep their crops in the fields until harvest time. 

“At this point, for most of us, it’s really just a wait and see to kind of determine how much of a detrimental yield effect this is going to have through the rest of the season and it certainly will, but it’s a really big question mark at this point as to how bad it’s truly going to be.”

Anderson says while the damage to the crops is unfortunate there are still crops out there with a lot of good yield potential that haven’t been damaged by the severe weather.