Farmers in northern Indiana and southern Michigan were hoping for rain before recent storms left their once thirsty crops waterlogged, especially in low areas holding more standing water.
The hope now is for things to dry out before it rains again to avoid further crop losses.
"There could be more extreme losses if the water doesn't start dropping a little more quickly," said Matt Schafer, a corn and soybean producer from LaCrosse.
"We've had an ample amount. We don't need any more," said Ken Seifert, who raises corn and soybeans on about 2,000 acres in Three Oaks and Galien.
Schafer said his corn and soybean fields in southern La Porte and Porter counties received close to 3 and almost 4 inches of rain last Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
That's in addition to precipitation ranging from 1.6 to 3.7 inches in his fields the previous weekend.
Some farmers in both regions were pumping water from once-low drainage ditches to help alleviate standing water in their saturated fields.
Ironically, parts of both states were classified as being in a drought prior to the rainfall.
Conditions were not quite as dry in northern Indiana and southern Michigan, though, but crops were starting to need to water.
"We were kind of always on the edge of being too dry and now we're probably past being on the edge of too wet," Schafer said.
"It was time for some rain, but we don't need any more rain for a couple of weeks," Seifert said.
Schafer said some of his crops might not survive or suffer from stunted growth depending on how quickly the standing water recedes.
The crops, behind in their growth, will need a spell of hot, dry weather in July to fully recover.
Seifert described a similar situation in his corn and soybeans fields which received up to 2 inches of precipitation and close to an equal amount of rain the previous weekend.
He said all of the storms, combined, brought about twice as much rain as his crops actually needed.
"Two inches would have been ideal," he said.
Seifert said he considers himself lucky, though, because the rainfall amounts were much heavier in some of the nearby areas like Baroda.
A portion of Schafer's crop is close to the Kankakee River, which was still rising on Monday.
Schafer said he wasn't sure when the river was going to crest, but he has seen it much higher.
The Galien River runs through some of the acreage Seifert farms with help from his sons.
Seifert said the Galien River has also been higher, but parts of it did spill into some of his fields.
"A couple of weeks of hot weather is what we need," he said.
Schafer said some farmers were already irrigating because of dry weather prior to the storms.
He was about to water his crops before the clouds opened up.
At one point during the recent storms, Schafer said there was even flooding in some of his fields on flat ground.
"The rain came down so fast it took a while to soak in. The majority of our fields still have some spots where water is standing," he said.