Bin cleanup on Minnesota farm hit by derecho may wait until after planting ... if planting ever happens

Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux and other officials visited Minnesota farms on May 19 to take a look at the damage from the storm that blew through a week before. High winds ripped apart grain bins and mangled irrigation and other equipment as well as damaging houses and other buildings.
Joe Stroman says the huge storm that swept across the upper Midwest wiped out about half his on-farm grain storage.

But before he worries about replacing the storage, he has to get a crop in the ground, and he hasn’t even started planting yet. Then there is the grain handling system that needs fixing after the storm.

There will be a long line grain of farmers wanting storage and handling equipment to be repaired.

“It might be a challenge to get bins built next year,” said Stroman, who farms near the town of Alberta, south of Morris in west-central Minnesota

Farm Service Agency Administrator Zach Ducheneaux and other officials visited Stroman’s farm on Thursday, May 19, to take a look at the damage from the storm that blew through a week before. High winds ripped apart grain bins and mangled irrigation and other equipment as well as damaging houses and other buildings.