Corn Belt Snowstorms Impact on Crops

How much crop damage will be reported this week from the winter storm this weekend? It brought 20 to 30 inches of snow and five foot snow drifts to a large part of the northwestern Corn Belt. I estimate that less than 5% of the soybeans (and virtually no corn) had been harvested in the areas of North and South Dakota and Minnesota that received the snow over this weekend.

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