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Rain quenched hay, com and tobacco fields in much of parched central and southside Virginia this week, but farmers in several counties still are waiting for relief.
“If it doesn’t rain within two weeks, that would put a lot of pressure on me even to survive,” said Ronnie Bruce, a Prince Edward County farmer whose hay, barley and wheat crops were severely damaged by a spring drought.
Rainfall has been scant in the county since early June, and that has Bruce wondering about the future of his 125 acres of com.
“The com is looking pretty good,” he Said by telephone, “but it’s at a critical stage and there’s no water reserve at all. Rainfall is needed for pollination immediately for some of it, and within the next two weeks for the entire crop.”
Agriculture officials said Friday that com needs rainfall regularly starting now so the ears will form and fill with kemals. Hay in fields parched by the spring drought still isn’t growing
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