Area farmers have been hit pretty hard, and Friday's heavy rain was certainly no exception, continuing in that too-wet trend, thats been going on for a year now, according to Henderson County Extension Director Dr. Terry Kelley.
Back last year (May 2018) when a big rain event, and the ongoing trend of practically solid wet weather, that has given growers all over the county problems, from washed out roads to fields too wet to even work in.
The county has indeed seen periods when conditions were favorable for a drying trend, but then it all starts again.
Apple growers in Henderson County, and those with other crops have started their spraying treatments which rain and moisture can of course disrupt. Wetter weather creates, and enhances better environment for diseases.
Hopefully the spigot will eventually normalize, with not so much rain, and wet weather going into the upcoming Summer months, as we have had previously.
