Monday’s storm impacted several farm fields across Greene County.

Landus Cooperative Field Agronomist Zach Minnihan says there is a wide range of damaged crop fields, from several that were unaffected, to some with cornstalks leaning or completely broken off. He describes the impacts on the corn crop.

“A lot of that corn is pretty resilient and it may poke back up and not be too terrible in another couple of weeks. Some of these fields might surprise you (but) if it completely broke off that’s done for. Come into the fall you might have some combines (that) are combining just in one direction that the way it (corn crop) leaned, and you might have some fields that maybe just a little bit of a gooseneck but there’s not that much damage.”

Minnihan notes the severity of crop damage is hard to determine since the storm was so widespread. However he says not to get too upset about the situation and offers this advice prior to harvest season.

“Typically we advise go get it quicker and don’t let it just sit out in the field. But again we can’t make that decision today or we can advise that today until this crop gets a little further along. But a lot of these fields, definitely do not give up on them.”

Greene County Supervisor Chair John Muir estimates at least one-third of the crop fields in the county have been destroyed from Monday’s storm.