Many crops in the southeast were flattened in severe thunderstorms Saturday night. But it appears damage may not be as bad as it looks. Scott Peters of Herbsigwil Farms at Randolph explains which crops suffered most.

"The spring wheat was hit the hardest. It's lodged flat down to the ground. It seems like the canola and the winter wheat has survived most of the rains and heavy winds."

He believes the crops can recover but expects there will be some damage to the heads and to the stocks that will result in yield and quality losses.

Ed Peters of Henervic Farms, also in the Randolph area, says it's a similar situation for him.

"The wind was so strong and that was one of the reasons, when the water came down in sheets, it took some of the crops down that were exactly in a critical stage. Our winter wheat actually stayed standing because it was a little bit past the most lush stage whereas our spring wheat was exactly in the stage where it wasn't quite as strong."

He adds they will lose some acres to drowning but won't know until harvest how much the yields and quality have been affected by the storm. Peters also says crops already looked a lot better Monday than they did Saturday.

Both Ed and Scott say they did not have any hail damage. They say rainfall varied from two to four inches.