First damaging winds, then hail strike central Minnesota farm fields this week

First damaging winds, then hail strike central Minnesota farm fields this week

WADENA, Minn. — Severe storms continued to pop up and wreak havoc on farms in the region of central Minnesota this week. The Deer Creek and Wadena area saw a bout of hailstones up to golf ball-sized hit that area at about 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 10. Ron Schertler, an agronomist with Leaf River Ag, said the damage was localized to an area about a mile wide and 10 miles long, mostly coming from southwest of Wadena before striking a large part of…