The hot, dry summer is turning into a warm, dry fall, and likely a dry winter too. It’s taking a toll on Georgia farmers, especially in the northwest corner of the state, where not enough hay grew and row crops didn’t do well, either.
“In my career this is as dry as I’ve seen it in northwest Georgia, which I’ve always lived in,” said Norman Edwards, the county extension agent for the University of Georgia in Walker County. “It’s the most severe drought most individuals up here have ever seen. I’m sure other years that’s been dry, but some parts of the county – I mean, it’s totally been brown, grass has been brown, pastures, fields been brown all summer long.”
Edwards said people with cattle and livestock couldn’t grow and harvest enough of their own hay, or buy enough locally.
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