The immensely rainy, and mild summer, and spring experienced this year put farmers behind on planting. Much of the planting was not able to be completed until several weeks after the normal start of planting. The constant deluge made the fields much to muddy to plant. Then during summer while the crops were already underdeveloped, vast standing pools of watered covered much of the fields, and killed off many more crops. Many farmers lost dozens, or hundreds of acres of crops to flooding.
The first week of autumn however, has brought a sigh of relief to the farmers, as their fields ripen quickly under our summer like heat wave. This 90-100 degree weather we are experiencing right now is serving almost as a counterbalance to the harmful conditions we have under went earlier in the season.
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