WOODBURY, Tenn. -- Normandy Lake's level is 3 feet higher now than this time last year, but more water is leaving than entering the reservoir and farmers in the area are worried.

Video: Farmer Still Reeling From Drought Effects

"We definitely needed it. That's the first major rain in six weeks," Charlie Bowman said of the weekend’s rainfall.

Like so many south and east of Nashville who are already under severe drought conditions, Cannon County farmer Bowman needed the rain that came last week.

But some damage is already done, and more rain is needed for many farmers to succeed.

"Yeah, we’re still playing catch up," Bowman said.

Some fields in the Cannon and Coffee county areas have been lucky and the corn looks healthy, but just down the road, some fields are in trouble.

"The rain we got last Wednesday, we got about a half-inch. Down the road about a mile, they only got 0.2, and another mile down the road only 0.1, and the closer toward Chattanooga they got none," he said.

Many farmers are still feeling the effects of last summer’s drought, which was one of the worst in decades, and the skyrocketing oil prices have drastically driven up the price of fuel and fertilizer.

One fertilizer has quadrupled in price in one year.

"It’s scary. In 1983, I had $100 in an acre of corn. Now, I’ve got $200 per acre in just fertilizer. Yes, corn prices may be up, but if you have nothing to sell it doesn’t matter. You worry about the weather all the time," Bowman said.