It wasn’t just corn crops damaged. Flory says soybean fields weren’t spared, also flattened by the winds Tuesday. Pictures show soybean fields unrecognizable, with tangled plants and crops ...

Photo: Darrell Smith The no-till, soybean-following-corn field was planted in 30" rows. The crew used a Kinze 8-row planter outfitted with Schaffert Generation 2 fertilizer disks for 2x2 applications.

The worms feed on the roots of the soybeans. A field of soybeans can be infected by up to three generations of the nematodes during one growing season and can lose up to 40 percent of its yield.