In August, a handful of southeastern counties received drought disaster designations. Before the month was out, that list had ballooned to 22 counties throughout Appalachian Ohio.
The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.The past year hasn’t been good to many Ohio farmers. At of early November, the total has risen to 52 counties, cutting a diagonal swath from Northwest Ohio to the Southeast.The U.S. Drought Monitor ranks drought conditions on a five-point scale running from D0 to D4 .
In her telling the past year has been a rollercoaster for farmers in her area. Early spring, there was enough rain many farmers worried if they’d be able to plant.“Then the rain stopped,” she said. “Fields that we’re once worried about being too wet, now looking like they had never seen water at all.”The first cutting of hay was a bit dry, but ok; by the second cutting yields were down significantly, and a third was “all but an afterthought,” she said.
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