Increasing spring rain adds to farmers' anxiety
This year with Wade weather, it’s been, it’s slowed progress obviously I wouldn’t say we’re behind, but a few more rains and we’re going to be. We average close to 42 inches of rain yearly, and sometimes you get it all up front and you’d like to see it spread out more evenly, especially in June, July, August, but you get a bunch of rain up front. The delays planting, which that leads to. Can lead to possibility of yield loss because you’re just lacking sunlight, you’re you’re just lacking growing days. You don’t get like 5-6 days of work in a row. You’re only getting two to three at a time instead of, you know, the weeks that we used to get. Usually it’s long hours and there’s two or three days to push as hard as you can to try and get the crop in. We’re getting late and we’ve only got a few days to plan at a time. You know, we’ll try to keep stuff going around the clock if we can, if we got enough manpower.