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brown rot, tomatoes and some melons have suffered.
“It’s been a pretty trying year,” he said of his occupation and its antagonist, the weather. “We’ve experienced as many difficulties as you can imagine,” adding that farmers all around have been plagued with excess water, an increase in insect problems and the lack of weather which permits treatment against pests, fungus and cool weather prohibiting germination or growth.
“It’s been just about anything you can name,” he said with a rather disgusted laugh, adding now things are drying. “My pond is down two inches and that tells me it’s dry.”
“We could use some rain around here,” he said, adding the wetness of the summer damaged some crops, probably aiding the fungus which destroyed melons, pumpkins and tomatoes. “Tomatoes were cracked and split,” he said of the fruit, adding many were undesirable, especially for retail sale.
And while some pumpkins were damaged by fungus and the crop remains slow to bear, causing some to be smaller than normal, Mr. Call said the farm will have “jack-o-lantems in time for Halloween.”
Though summer was wet around the county, the hot late days of August and the early days of September have dried the soil deep.
Through the first half of the month, “we were recording temperatures about nine degrees above normal,” Mr. Wingfield said of daytime temperatures around the county. After the weekend’s burst of cooler air, temperatures have dropped
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