The governor and state emergency management director say the crop damage in the state from storms and flooding will likely be in the millions. Northwest Iowa has some of the worst hit fields, in a situation that Spencer-based Iowa State University Extension agronomist Paul Kassel says has dramatically changed.

Kassel says thousands of corn and soybean acres are already wiped out, and it’s not over yet.

Kassel says wet fields are also preventing farmers from applying weed-preventing herbicides on corn that is surviving. The lastest U-S-D-A crop report released Monday showed most of the state’s corn crop is doing well. The crop was rated one percent very poor, four percent poor, 16 percent fair, 58 percent good, and 21 percent excellent. Almost all of the soybeans have emerged and just one percent of them are rated very poor and five percent rated poor.