More rain this year impacting local farmers and crops

WORCESTER COUNTY, Md.- This year has been a tough one farmers as we are told they got more rain than usual this year.

Virgil Shockley, a Worcester County farmer, said the weather patterns for this year have been all over the place.

Shockley added that they usually expect to get nor’easters twice a year, and this year there were more than that, bringing an increase in rain.

Since the day after Thanksgiving, Shockley said he has had close to seven inches of rain and that increase will impact crops.

“What is different about this year is that fact that you don’t get a half inch rain, you don’t get a one inch rain, you get a 2 and a 3 and a 4 inch rain 50 which we normally don’t get,” Shockley said. “Cold, damp doesn’t equal corn plants coming up, it just doesn’t work and soybeans the same way.”

Virgil said his guess is that farmers are going to hit 60 inches of rain for this year depending on where they are located.

He expected that we are going to see prices go up on vegetable crops to maybe even double the amount they are now.