Derecho May Not Have Significant Impact on IA Corn Supply

Early estimates from Iowa’s Governor’s office put corn crop damage at 10 million acres, with updated estimates Friday coming in even higher than that, from the devastating derecho storm that struck with 100 mph winds on Aug 10.

While the damage is largely unknown, Jarod Creed of JC Marketing Services says 10 million acres of crop damage may be a stretch, according to an AgWeb report.

“I’m trying to break it down from looking at crop districts within the state of Iowa,” says Creed, who also lives in eastern Iowa. “Des Moines lies in District 50. East Central Iowa is in District 60. The combination of those two are going to have somewhere between 7 to 8 million acres of corn and beans combined.”

Creed says the assumption today is there is much more damage to the corn acres than soybean acres at this point.

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USDA Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin (Aug. 18): Derecho Flattens Some Corn Belt Crops Without Easing Drought

USDA Weekly Grains Inspected For Export Report (Aug. 17): Corn, Sorghum Up Last Week; Soybeans and Wheat Down

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