HADDONFIELD, N.J. (DTN) -- Delta farmer Marvin Cochran can hardly bring himself to survey the 500 acres of soybeans he has left standing in saturated fields this week. "It's disheartening to see a crop that we expected to yield 55 bushels per acre before Labor Day rot in the space of a few weeks," the Avon, Miss., grower said. "It feels hopeless."

Crop insurers already are calling Mississippi a train wreck for crop losses. Some 30 inches of rain has deluged Cochran's farm since Labor Day, and he estimates soybeans that didn't get harvested earlier could be 80 percent damaged ...