Tuesday, 11 Aug 2020 10:23 AM MYT
The storm compounded troubles for a US farm economy already battered by extreme weather, the US-China trade war and most recently, the disruption caused to labour and consumption by the Covid-19 pandemic. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, global commodities trader Cargill Inc's oilseed processing facilities have no power and are shuttered, the company told Reuters late yesterday.
“This corridor of wind went through and flattened corn and crops,” said Andrew Ansorge, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Des Moines. “We're still trying to get all the information in.”
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