Source: Paul Hollis, SOUTH EAST FARM PRESS, 7/22/11

Skippy, uneven, unlevel, jagged, non-uniform, irregular — farmers in the lower Southeast are running out of words to describe a crop that is anything but pretty this year due to an extremely dry May and sporadic showers ever since.

According to the U.S. Drought Monitor’s mid-July report, conditions were improving in places, with scattered showers and  thunderstorms pelting the Southeast, and substantial showers falling on parts of the Carolinas, southern Georgia, most of Florida, and on portions of southeastern Louisiana and southern sections of Mississippi and Alabama.

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