Farmers always have to contend with Mother Nature to grow or raise our food. The record rainfall in May has brought challenges to Central Texas farmers, reports KGNS-TV of Laredo.
In the month of May we hardly did anything at all, except watch it rain, laughed Robert Fleming, with Fleming Grain and Cattle in Troy.
Most wheat crops were ready to be harvested until the torrential rains pounded Texas. Corn was planted “a good 60 days” late. The corn crop was severely stressed. It needed about half the rain we got, Fleming said.
Now it’s just a matter of harvesting the crop before yield goes down. Oh it’s the fast and the furious. You don’t know which way to go out the door every morning, Fleming joked. It’s very hectic and very stressful right now.