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pie awoke to hear winds “that
sounded just like a freight train
was going through the bedroom,”
Kathy Hartung said.
Local media reports claim
winds reached 75 miles per hour
that night.
When it was over, the Hartungs
had calf hutches spread for half a
mile. They found alive the one
calf that was living in a hutch.
But nothing could save the 600
acres of com the Hartungs were
raising.
“We’re lucky if we have 50
acres still standing,” Kathy Har
tung said.
Their farm supports three
families —Bob Hartung is in a
partnership with his two sons. Bob
Jr. and Thomas.
Kathy Hartung said her family
has gone on with the daily milk
ings and other chores, but they
remain in a state of shock.
“It’s almost like a death in the
family,” she said.
The ground the Hartungs own
and the fields they rent adjoin each
other in a straight line. The wind
“went right down the road,” she
said.
Bob Hartung estimates the loss
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conservative,” Kathy Hartung
said.
Gerry Martin was doing some
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than 10 stalks left standing on 19
acres that averaged 14-foot high
rows the night before.
Martin said he lost 63 percent of
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“Mine was just in tassel and just
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“We had the right amount of rain
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one-third of the loss. But if the
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‘To me, that’s rubbing salt in
the wound,” Hartung said.
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At Bingham’s Orchard, the
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Jill Hughey, assistant manager
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