Although we’ve seen plenty of rain over the last 24 hours, our area has hit a few dry patches this summer.
Agriculture officials say that’s had an impact on summer crops.
Even though we are technically not in a drought, we are dry,” Kyle Kotzmoyer of the PA Farm Bureau said. “That just goes to show, I mean as bad as it’s been, how fortunate we are to not be in the situations like Texas, Utah, or California. And just how awful things have been for them, when we are not nearly as dry as they are but yet we are hurting when it comes to harvesting crops.”
Kotzmoyer says sweet corn has been one of the biggest crops impacted by the dry weather.
“We’ll still expecting a pretty good sweet corn crop, it’s just going to be delayed. So if it’s here in the next couple of weeks, it doesn’t mean it’s any less nutritious or delicious, just that it’s very delayed,” Kotzmoyer said.
Kotzmoyer attributes to late sweet corn crop to a wet planting season.
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