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Sat. 11:33 p.m.: Wet weather, wet fields: No easy season for farmers

COMING SUNDAY: Wet fields can rot vegetables and heavy rains can wash away seed, disturb germination and cause crops to yellow and wither.

And heavy rain events are becoming more and more frequent, said Jeff Mathews, who has crops on 650 acres in Kinsman, where his family has farmed since 1910.

One of his cornfields was under 5 feet of water after a June 8 downpour. It rained 4 or 5 inches in one hour that day and 3 or 4 inches on June 10, Mathews said.

“It poured like we should all be building arks,” said Ginny Pasha, who lives in Kinsman. “After, we went to see the dam and spillway at Kinsman Lake, and in our 30 years here, it was the highest we have ever seen it. One family had so much water running through their yard, it sounded like a river running.”

While some of his seeds washed out and some of the plants didn’t take, the fields have been draining.

Read the full story Sunday.

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