Portage la Prairie area farmers say that while the rain is nice and will help some of the later crops grow, most of the harvest has already been finished.

Dave Shott, a crop farmer, says that he's actually surprised with how much the rain helped to green up his fields. He goes into detail on how he will benefit from the rainfall.

"The soybeans for us are the only ones that are going to benefit from this rain," explains Shott. "It might add some corn, but most of it, whether it was made for seed corn or grain corn, will probably get chopped up for silage."

He adds that after having some of his canola eaten by grasshoppers, the rainfall helped him regain some of the lost crops. He also says some of his fields that were dead are now back to a full bloom.

Cattle farmer Theresa Zuk says after the recent rain combined with the rainfall from earlier this month, a lot of the previously brown grass has turned green. She explains how the rain will extend grazing for the cows.

"This will help extend some grazing for sure, but it won't replace all the feed that was lost," notes Zuk. "Dugouts sure are not full any longer because there's a lot of water to be replenished, but this is a good start to it."

One thing both farmers are glad about is how some of their harvest and feed was eaten by grasshoppers, and the rain will help them recuperate some of those losses. Unfortunately, with the drought and the damage already done by the aforementioned grasshoppers, a lot of farmers will be facing a loss, and will have to turn their attention to next year.