Northern Minnesota bean field collapses, falls 25 feet [View all]

POLK COUNTY, Minn. — It is still hard for Wayne Erickson to make sense of what happened on his farm. Simply put, a section of his black bean field fell two stories.

“When I drove out here, it looked like the Grand Canyon. We didn’t have all that slumping going on, it was just straight down. Straight up and down,” Erickson said.

Wayne and Erllene Erickson are the fourth generation on the family farm in Polk County in northwestern Minnesota, and they’ve never seen anything like this. Nobody is sure what caused the huge slide.

“(It’s) kind of scary. It is sad, sad to see it,” Erllene said as she surveyed the fallen field. “Mother Nature does what she wants.”

Read more: https://www.twincities.com/2021/08/26/northern-mn-bean-field-collapses-falls-25-feet/


A farmer’s field near Climax, Minnesota, has some new contours after a portion of the field fell 25 feet. (Kevin Wallevand / Forum News Service)


Footage from a drone camera shows the sheer size of the fallen field. The blue speck near the lower-right edge of the ravine is actually a person. (Courtesy of Brad Thoreson)