Hail takes toll on area crops

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Farmers in Stoddard County were already combating drought for the 2012 growing season, but Sunday another natural disaster added to the woes of some farmers east of Essex. The thunderstorms that hit late Sunday evening spawned a major hail storm that totally destroyed significant cotton and soybean fields and seriously damaged some corn fields.

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