saw pictures  wow unreal we delever up to cedar rapid my driver said swift truck next to him was blow away  driver ok

question 700 miles of desistration no news coverage. i have read crops are gone. i wonder how big impact on meat and feed

was it tornado?  so sad!

Not a tornado ...... It is called a Midwest derecho, a type of straight-line wind storm, and was a severe weather event. I don't know where the OP gets her news but it was all over ours and national too !!!  

nothing in the panhandle of fl  my drivers and  customers told us as were del in cedar rapids . iread a little saw somepicture  said like a cat 2 hurricane

Hurricane force winds (max wind gust recorded was 112) that streached over a path 30-50 miles wide.Total leangth of storm was around 700 miles, but of course it got less damaging as it went along.   It started in Nebraska and the winds were still 70 mph when it hit Chiago. An estimated 10 million acres of Iowa farmland was affected. It was also devestating to any homes/cities in it's path.

On the farming side of it - it was danged rough. Time will tell what was actually destroyed versus damaged. Corn was in a later maturity stage- most of the ear had already been made. Early reports seem to indicate the corn was laid over versus being snapped off. Laid over corn will probably stand back up enough to get a combine head under it. It will definitly slow down harvest and there will be quality issues. Lots of farmers were still storing last year's crops in bins because corn/soybean prices have been low and they were waiting for the market to swing back up. Those were destroyed too. Some of that grain can be recovered, but there will be quality issues as well.  And now, there are no places to store- so it has to be sold and farmers will just have to take that day's market price- If there even is a elevator (place to deliver to) remotely close to them that wasn't wiped out too.

Much of the rest of the US is having a really good production year- so that will help some to make up for the loss. I would expect some increase in prices to the end consumers of corn products, but not a big one. But it will be devestating to those that was in it's path.

I heard some about it on the news (KY), but not as much as you might expect for the amount of damage it did.

It was bad.

Before and After

It is just horrible. I have saw several photos. It's just unreal & so sad. I think one reason it's not in the news more is because it's mostly rural area damage. Sadly that never gets as much coverage  

Cedar Rapids and Marshaltown was hit hard along with other small towns.  Some still don't have power back on and it's been over a week now.  Samaritain's Purse is here as well helping.  There's still a lot of suffering going on quietly.

My heart goes out to you.  We had Hurricane Michael here in our little town and I went 22 days without electricity.  Your community is definitely in my prayers.