HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — North Carolina farmers in the Piedmont Triad are welcoming the rain, saying it’s finally making a dent in the weeks-long drought.
For weeks, farmers say certain crops have struggled, and they have been uncertain about harvests. Many have relied on irrigation systems and ponds to support their crops.
Rhonda Ingram at Ingram’s Family Farms said their main crop of strawberries thankfully do well in the dry conditions, and they have a strong irrigation system for those fields. But for their blackberries, blueberries and muscadine plants, it’s a different story.
“Muscadines. Even though we have irrigation here, that’s one of the crops that we cannot successfully irrigate … Even things like our blueberries, they’re not under good irrigation,” Ingram said.
Dry Spring
A light rain in early May broke a few weeks with no rain, but most farmers said that was not nearly enough to make a difference. Ingram said talking with other farms, the dry spring has been hard on a lot of produce, like tomatoes and corn…