7 inches of rain in a little over 2 days was not what we needed. Thankfully, after the 1951 flood my grandfather and his neighbors said "enough" and formed a watershed district. With tax money they built 40 dams on our river system(creeks really) and even in 1998 when we had 14 inches the flooding was held to the lowest fields, unlike '51 when my grandfather walked from his house to my great grandparents(one mile) in water that was waist deep.
I may have suffered a little flood damage in the low spots, the real issue is that the corn is starting to sprout on the ear, and the cool wet weather simply has stopped my soybeans from maturing. At this point, there are no freezing temps in the forecast, but an article in one of my weekly farm papers advised that we have had frosts as early as September 13th.
Our forecast now is for 10 dry but rather cool days, no more 80s that I could see, and lows in the high 40s. Tomorrow is the full moon, as odd as this sounds, an elderly neighbor years ago told me that when the full moon comes in dry, you probably won't get over an inch of rain in the next 30 days. This holds true about 75% of the time based on my observations the last 10 years....but, I have also learned that in years where it is either extremely dry or extremely wet, it doesn't seem to matter how the moon comes in, so I guess we will wait and see.
One thing is certain, 7 inches of rain makes alot of mud. With cool temps, it will be some time before the ground will carry any equipment for any reason, even just spraying pastures. I hope the drouth started today, if you are going to have a dry snap, this is the time of year to have it, a little hot weather wouldn't hurt either, but it seems very unlikely we will get 90s again now.