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Soybean, potato, and peanut crops are also severely damaged. High temperatures were blamed for the deaths of 400,000 chickens and 6,000 ducks.
Allen H. Allison, Extension peanut specialist at Virginia Tech's Tidewater Research Center, Suffolk, said that earlier in the year specialists had predicted the peanut yield throughout the state to be the best since 1973.
"If we had received rain in the last 7-10 days, we could still have had a fairly decent crop.” Allison remarked. “Normally in the month of August, we receive an average of six to eight inches
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