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much in some areas, officials said.
“With the spring drought, the first cutting of hay was lousy,” said Red Rowley, assistant state statistician with the Virginia Crop Reporting Service in Richmond. “Barley had pretty low yields. The same goes for wheat.
“The real dry places are in southcentral Virginia. Those are the areas that seem to be hurting now.”
Ed Hanes, Cumberland County extension agent, said area farms need rain desperately.
“We can swing either way,” he said. “If we get above-normal rainfall from here on out, we can get abovenormal yields. If we get below-normal rainfall, yields will be below normal.”
The National Weather Service in Richmond said much of northern, central and south-central Virginia got considerably less rain than usual last month. Frederick County got only 1.8 inches, down 2.26 inches from the average. In Richmond and Newport News, rainfall was slightly above normal.
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