The fields were wet and crops were slow to mature forcing some farmers to harvest in the snow. The corn is behind again and recent moisture is adding soggy conditions to the mix.
You don't have to look more than once to see there's been plenty of moisture around the Pray farm in Brown County.
"An inch wouldn't have hurt anything really; we'd have been all right," Chad Pray said.
But when you add up Monday and Tuesday's totals, Pray had more than six inches of rain at his place. Fields are wet; some crops are sitting in water and so are roads.
"We're going to have some trouble with getting the crops off. Roads were in bad shape before this big rain and now we got more roads washed out," Pray said. Pray is expecting to have to avoid some roads altogether and make longer detours around at passable points.
"And that's more of an expense but we can't do anything about it," Pray said.
He's not only avoiding roads damaged by the most recent rain but also those that have been under water since snow melt. He’s expecting all the water to affect them next spring as well.
"The water table's so high, who knows what's going to happen," Pray said.
But before that time comes, the Prays still have crops to take off and cattle to work with this fall in the middle of water that’s been around all season.
"It's been a mess," Pray said.
One that at his place is now about six inches deeper.
