Many farmers are dealing with standing water on recently planted fields.

Illinois farmer Jake Lieb has been battling the weather throughout the spring.

“Planted into it a little wetter than we’d like.”  He says, “Then we got hammered with four inches of rain in like two hours. I mean, the whole field was underwater for several hours and then, you know, the ponds were full for a couple of days.”

Pioneer agronomist Matt Montgomery tells Brownfield there has been research into submerged crops.

…