Severe weather did a lot of damage in Lafayette County in southwestern Wisconsin on Friday night. Winds up to 65 miles per hour, baseball-sized hail and two tornados clobbered some 20,000 acres of crops. A town snowplow was used to clear the hail off the roads.
U.W. Extension agent Ted Bay says they are scrambling to assess the damage but it may not all be evident right now. “In some cases it is easy to tell where the farmer has had 100 percent loss in their crop and in other areas it’s not going to be known until harvest time how extensive the damage is.” Besides the standing crops, some stored crops were also damaged, “a lot of people store feed in plastic bags or use plastic-wrapped bales, that plastic is now punctured full of holes so something has to be done immediately to try to save that crop.”
*Thanks to Brian Moon, Wisconsin Radio Network and Thom Gerretsen, Wheeler News Service for this story.
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