Jeff Kirwan, a soybean and corn farmer located south of the Quad-Cities in Mercer County, was playing golf in central Illinois at an event for the Illinois Farm Bureau when the derecho hit in August 2020. His land was just one of the 37.7 million acres of farmland that was impacted by the derecho in the Midwest, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (The Dispatch–Argus)