Rain and late season frost can be a recipe for disaster for Valley Farmers.

With more rain to come and weekend lows to be near freezing, a sense of worry is setting in around area farms. 

"Plants are a lot like people, they don't like to stand in the saturated cold ground," says David Hall of White House Fruit Farms in Canfield, where rain and colder air have set back operations.

Crops from early sweet corn to onions to raspberries all taking a hit due to the lack of oxygen reaching their roots. 

"When it stops raining you can't immediately run out and do something because it takes a number of days for the soil to dry so it tends to set operations back," adds Hall. 

Hall also adds when heavy rains set in, Mahoning County soils usually don't do well due to poor drainage. 

In Trumbull County at Matwich's Berry Farm, Raspberries, which are sensitive to colder weather and diseases,  are grown under what's known as a high tunnel which will shake off any of that late season colder weather. 

Ray Matwich says this is the worst spring he has seen on his Leavittsburg farm, which grows a variety of berries and vegetables.

He has been forced to switch to a variety of different methods to help save his crops from Spring-time rain and cold. 

"Now I use a heavy row cover which is a spun bonded row cover that more or less protects the crop and keeps the temperature underneath the row cover at least 5 to 8 degrees warmer," says Matwich.