Some of the crops will be a write-off.
Damage is expected to amount to several hundred thousand dollars for each affected farm.
Farmers are covered by the United Wheat Grower’s Wheat Insurance Scheme and other crops might be covered by commercial insurance.
David Clark, Feds’ grain and seed chairman for the area, said radish and carrot crops were shredded and wheat and barley crops had the stuffing knocked out of them.
“This has been a mongrel year for farmers in Mid-Canterbury. We have gone from snow to wind storms to a very dry spring to now this,” he said.
