Source: GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD, 8/10/18

Local farmers like to joke that conditions are always seven to 10 days from a drought. So when the rain started three weeks ago, it saved corn, beans and other produce across the county. Then it wouldn’t stop. Because of that, strawberry crops experienced stunted growth.
“Sometimes it can be too much of a blessing,” said Don York, who mainly grows corn and soybeans. July is traditionally an unpredictable weather month anyway. Some years, there is a trace of precipitation. In other years, farmers wear rain boots to milk cows. And conditions can differ from farm to farm. That’s because in the summer, especially, slow-moving showers tend to dump a lot of rain in one location. More than 32 inches of rain has fallen since January. While not record setting, it’s about six inches above normal, according to the National Weather Service. …

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