It’s been referred to as the “Iowa Hurricane” and DTN Chief Agriculture Meteorologist Bryce Anderson says that may be a fair comparison. 

He’s talking about last week’s derecho that tore a path of destruction through a 770-mile stretch of the Midwest, including Illinois. He says some estimates have as many as 37.7 million of Midwest farmland acres impacted by last Monday’s system.

President Donald Trump was in Iowa Tuesday discussing derecho damage.