AUBURN — At Bell Farms on Route 136, Riverside Drive, Sunday’s storm blew over fields of sweet corn, leaving the farm’s owners to wonder how they will harvest the crop, if it all.
“We’ve got to assess and see if it can be harvested,” farmer David Bell said Monday morning. There may be methods or machines that could do the work, he said. If not, the corn would be plowed into the soil.
The storm could have been worse. Though the nearby Androscoggin River is high, it did not jump the banks and flood his potato fields. That would have been devastating, he said.
It’s too soon to guess the total damage, he said.

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