How flooding will affect crop production

MOUNT VERNON, S.D. (KELO) -- Homeowners are still assessing damage from last month's flooding and farmers are feeling the same effects.

Unprecedented flooding in late June damaged fields throughout South Dakota.

"What we have heard from across the state, even in our region, is a lot of just general flood damage, whether that be crops washing down the creek or standing water that has pretty well snuffed out and smothered the existing crop that's been there," South Dakota Soybean Association president Kevin Deinert said."

Near Mount Vernon, some fields still have standing water.

"We were very dry earlier this spring, but you get nine, ten inches of moisture, it's going to go to that lowest point, and it's just going to sit there for a long time," South Dakota Soybean treasurer Brent Greenway said.

Some crops are damaged beyond repair, but it's hard to tell how much it will affect the harvest.

"I think it's too early to say. The one issue that I think of is if it quits raining, and it was so wet there for so long, whether the roots actually are going to sink deep enough to get some of that subsoil moisture, but I ...