Macon County farmers Brad Dearing and Reid Thompson spoke with the Pantagraph about drought and recent weather events. Dearing said, "we were so dry that we were just stuck. We were hovering; there wasn't any moisture in the atmosphere, no ground moisture, nothing really to get up to create clouds."
Thompson added that while the recent rains have "given us life," the few months before harvest are a critical time period.
""we won't know until the rest of the story is written," he said.
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