Wind Erosion in Iowa

Yesterday was a pretty awful day in the state of Iowa as wind erosion decimated the state.  I had a video from a friend of mine near Lake Mills, IA of dirt drifts blowing across a gravel road.  Not a good day for any farmer in Iowa or Minnesota.  As I was driving around tonight assessing the damage, my Mom called me and asked if I had been to our farm where we had plowed and strip tilled corn on corn on the same farm to see the differences on how the corn looked.  I hadn't and she told me that I needed to go take some pictures as my Dad was about sick at how the corn looked.  Here's what I saw when I arrived.  All of these pictures are within a 78 acre field.

Corn on Corn plowing

Corn on Corn Strip Till

Corn on Corn Plowing looking NW

Corn on Corn Strip Till looking NE

Plowing plants

Stip tilled plants 10 feet from plants above

Strip tilled COC looking across rows

Plowing COC looking across rows