Editor’s note: The headline for this story was updated to reflect the value of crops lost.
DENVER ( KDVR ) — More rain fell in Denver on Saturday than the entire month of June , leaving flooded roadways and 90 calls for service within one hour. Meanwhile, hailstorms swept through farmlands in Berthoud, destroying a season’s worth of crops on one malthouse’s farm.
Root Shoot Malting posted on social media about the storm that swept through Berthoud, which took out most of the crops and totaled around half a million dollars in damage.
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“Our world got absolutely rocked last night from yesterday’s raging hail storm. It’s extremely devastating when a single storm can wipe out an entire season worth of crops, and even more devastating to walk the fields this morning with Todd,” the malthouse posted on its Instagram on Sunday.
The malthouse said the Berthoud fields were hit the worst, where 120 acres of distillers corn, 12 acres of their trial blue corn, 300 acres of alfalfa and 70 acres of Genie barley were destroyed.