Southeast farmers have been dealing with one storm after another, causing damage as harvest continues and crops are vulnerable.
Over August multiple systems have brought rains, heavy winds, and even hail, which can cause delays and damage to fields.
Agrologist Edgar Hammermeister talks about the damage he's seen come into the southeast.
"There's been some storms that have moved through my own farm. Had a near miss a couple of weeks ago. Well, a couple of fields got affected, but it's my understanding that the Carlyle area really got hit a few days ago. Kind of back-to-back storms with hail and lots of wind."
"There's a lot of crop damage that happened in that area. Unfortunately, I don't have any percentages to comment, it's probably too soon even for the adjusters to come out, but just talking with some area farmers, sounds like quite a bit of damage."
Both the hail and wind can produce damage with crops near harvest especially vulnerable.
"As the crops get closer to maturity, the stems, particularly the cereals, if it's expected to be a good yielding crop then it tends to be heavy in the heads and if it's a strong wind, it will start laying the crop down, getting it to lodge."
"It's also connected sometimes to excessive nutrients, but you would have seen that lodging earlier in the season. The lodging that's happening now is more attributed to the weather, the wind that we're getting."
Even though that hail is causing some issues in the area Hammermeister says he's still happy to get the crop done and hopes for no interruptions.
"It's my favourite time of the year. I think the same for most farmers and we're just anxious to get the crop into the bin and hoping that this little weather system that they got forecasted for Wednesday-Thursday turns out to be light and that we can really get into the harvest groove."