ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE)— Fort Wayne received a just under an inch of rain in the past week. But, is that enough to help crops before the harvest? Greg Kneubuhler, owner of G & K Concepts— an independent crop consulting firm— said that corn really won't benefit from the rain, but in some cases soybeans will. As of Thursday, portions of Allen, DeKalb and Noble Counties in Indiana; and Paulding, Defiance and Williams Counties in Ohio were in severe drought. The hot, dry conditions really began to take hold in August and continued until mid-September. According to Kneubuhler, corn is heavily dependent on July conditions while soybeans depend on conditions in August. "Relatively speaking, corn won't be hurt as bad as what beans will be hurt," Kneubuhler said. "Only because corn was far enough along in its maturity that it was kind of over the hump before we got real [dry]." Though corn won't be as heavily affected as beans by recent conditions, that means the recent rain didn't help the crop at all. Since soybeans mature later, any of those crops that were able to withstand the previously dry conditions were able to benefit from the recent rain. "No farmer likes to come off a hot, dry finish like we just came off of because they know it trims their yields back," Kneubuhler said. "While we still may have trimmed yields we still have a good crop." Kneubuhler continued that some fields will have higher yields than others, but it is not a "disaster crop." The next U.S. drought monitor, the weekly update of the nation's drought conditions, will be released Thursday. That is when it will be revealed if recent rain has put a dent in drought conditions.