The National Weather Service has issued a warning for high rainfall and flooding to be reflected in saturated fields and the potential to delay planting. Flooding along the Pearl River was the highest sine 1983 and 2019 was the second wettest year on record. Areas that will be affected include the Red River Valley, the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Missouri Valley. Conditions in 2020 could repeat the devastation of 2019 when South Dakota was unable to plant four million acres and widespread devastation occurred on farms and to stored crops harvested from the previous season.