Source: Deric Rush, WITN, 6/30/22

The updated drought monitor has increased the expanse of the severe drought across Eastern Carolina. While rain has fallen the past few days, many areas are still several inches short of what they need, causing area farmers to see the impacts on their crops. “Yeah, it’s tough if you don’t have irrigation... usually happens when you have drought stress... not a whole lot you can do if you can’t get water to it, it’s just not going to make very good,” Michael Stanley of S&H Feed and Garden said in reference to their planted corn crop.

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