Editor’s note: There are 27 Pennsylvania counties under this watch, including Berks.
Keith Hilliard has been watching the sky from his farm in Sugarloaf Township, hoping for rain.
Hilliard hasn’t seen the weather he’d like so far this spring.
The dry weather helped him plant seeds, but now, “if we don’t get any rain, it will affect those crops pretty quickly,” he said.
Some crops are worth irrigating for Hilliard, president of the Luzerne County Farm Bureau. Others won’t offer enough return on his investment. About 40 percent of his hay crop has already been affected by the dry weather.
“There’s not a whole lot you can do with a lack of rain,” he said.
Read more: http://citizensvoice.com/news/despite-storms-county-under-drought-watch-1.1889261
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