Central IL farmer picking up after Thursday tornado

Central IL farmer picking up after Thursday tornado

Severe storms moved across the Midwest Thursday, and central Illinois farmer David Brown is thankful his planter wasn’t in the shed.

The Macon County farmer tells Brownfield…

“We had a tornado come through and we were very fortunate that nobody got hurt.”  He says, “Our planter had been pulled out in this one particular shed to be ready for our planting season. We had moved it and had it hooked up in another location.”

Brown’s machine shed was one of several hit by a tornado.

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