Hot, humid, and dry weather is no stranger to summer.

The growing season started on a soggy note, but temperatures surged well above the average, and that's necessarily not a bad thing for crops early in the growing season.

"Once we got the stuff in the ground it really took and just kept growing. We had a lot of heat in April, May, and June, and now in July, it seems like every day is above average. That's just pushing everything ahead so we are picking about two weeks, come things three weeks ahead of schedule," says Carl Angiuli, Owner of Angiuli Farm Market. 


June and July started the summer season on a very dry, hot, and humid note, but Angiuli says thanks to the irrigation system at his Canfield farm, it's the excessive rainfall, not the drought that impacts his crops the most.

"We have the ability to put on all the water we need and we haven't. It can get really,really dry and we are okay. It's when we get really wet and we have one rain spell after another, that is what really causes damage to us," adds Angiuli. 


It's not just local crops that are seeing the impact from this summer's hot, humid, and dry weather, but local dairy farms are feeling the effects as well.


"I think it's been pretty impactful. We did get our corn in late, which looks like a good thing because our corn is not so stressed and it will be better for the cows to come chopping. making sure our wells don't go dry, and just keeping them cool,c we run fans, and I spray them as they are going in and out of the parlor," says Jamie Everson, Owner of Everson Jersey Dairy Farm in Greenford. 

The humid days impact how much a cow consumes and therefore has a direct impact on the dairy industry as a whole.

"They won't produce as much milk. A big thing is showing heat for pregnancy because you need them pregnant to produce milk so it's harder to catch heat and get them settled," adds Everson.