July was a trying weather month. Hot and humid days were good for corn and soybean growth, but hard on livestock and on wheat and small grains ready for harvest.
Rhonda Kats explains how the machine shed lifted from its base in powerful winds at her in-law's home near Hudson, S.D.
Cattle at the Dummer Ranch near Bonesteel, S.D., were drown in their stock dam after being tossed by a tornado July 28.
Todd Vander Laan takes a break from clean up around his farm yard north of Beresford, S.D., July 30. Insulation from his collapsed machine shed wrapped around the windshield wipers of his loader.
A derecho with 99 mph winds tore apart a machine shed and did other damage on the Todd Vander Laan farm north of Beresford, S.D., July 28.
A machine shed is reduced to sticks and crumpled metal after it blew over the home of Doug and Karla Kats outside Hudson, S.D. A derecho with wind gusts reaching 99 mph swept through the area July 28.
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Gabe Kats, 8, holds a hen in front of his grandparents' toppled chicken coop July 30. The farm a mile from Hudson, S.D., was hit by a derecho with 99 mph wind gusts.
A machine shed collapses around a tractor on the Dragstra farm near Sioux Center, Iowa. The Dragstras also lost two hog barns and grain bins.
The path of the tornado that hit the Kittleson home near Henry, S.D. can be seen through the crop field.
Leah Kittleson consoles her horse, Cody, before he had to be put down after the tornado near Henry, S.D.
Raised in small town South Dakota, Janelle is enjoying her time as editor of Tri-State Neighbor and Midwest Messenger while raising kids, chickens and no till vegetables in central Sioux Falls. Reach her at janelle.atyeo@lee.net.
Janelle Atyeo
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