Debris from a tornado northeast of Enderlin, N.D. (Joe Leier/KFGO)
FARGO (KFGO) – Extension staff from North Dakota State University have been gathering data from the recent severe storms in North Dakota.
During a Thursday webinar, North Dakota State University Extension crops economist Dr. Frayne Olson shared an early crop damage estimate and any market implications.
“Based on the numbers that I have seen so far, it looks as though there’s about 125,000 acres that have been impacted in the state from a crop standpoint,” Olson said. “If you do that math on that – we have, give or take, about 25-million acres of cropland in North Dakota every year. So, that would be about 1/2 of 1%.”
Olson said that’s a relatively small number from an aggregate standpoint across the entire state.
“For the farmers that got hit, it’s a big deal. It’s something that definitely needs to be watched, but from an aggregate – from a marketing standpoint, it’s relatively small,” Olson said.
The online Agricultural Damage Assessment Survey from the June 20 storms in North Dakota closes Friday.
If individuals need assistance with completing the survey, they are welcome to contact their local county Extension office at this link –
https://www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/extension/county-extension-offices
Data will be shared at a county level, not individually, so individual responses are protected and not shared.
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