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the* farmer suffers a 50-percent reduction in income even if prices stay at last year’s level.
The same situation threatens Rappahannock's apple crop this year, Thornhill added. Apples are now sized at 1-2 'A inches; and without rain they could be 50 percent smaller by harvest time than they were last year.
The monetary loss from the stunted corn crop is due to its use as corn silage rather than being combined this year. Thornhill adds that “anybody who planted late corn lost it totally.”
The same for anybody who planted a second crop of hay. If the first crop didn't yield enough to get through the winter, the economic loss is compounded by the cost of livestock feed.
Across the state corn producers are currently
51.2%