He won’t get to do that until his fields are dry by early next week. Johnson also said because of the rain, he will need to reapply nitrogen to his cotton fields, which have started to turn yellow in some areas from malnutrition. “Those beans were just coming up, and (the rain has) just been hard on them,” Johnson said. Philip Johnson, co-owner of Johnson Farms in Noxubee County, said he had several fields flash flood during the two-week period.īecause the rain kept up for so long, about 265 acres of soybeans he grows could be affected, losing about 150 to 200 pounds of product come harvest. The farmers who spoke to The Dispatch said they could lose between 10% and 33% of their harvest of corn, cotton and soybeans in the fall due to the July rains, through stunted production and malnutrition - primarily nitrogen treatments washing away. Local farmers that spoke to The Dispatch now report a potential loss of anywhere between 10% and 33% of different crops such as corn, cotton and soybeans. Due to torrential rains, Johnson said 265 acres of his soybeans have been negatively impacted by the weather. Philip Johnson stands in a soybean field Wednesday at Johnson Farm in Noxubee County. In that time, more than 35 farmers in Lowndes, Oktibbeha and Noxubee counties have filed revenue loss insurance claims due to the increased storms, according to multiple sources that spoke with The Dispatch. The National Weather Service reported the Golden Triangle saw about 13 inches of rain between July 1 and July 16, more than four times the 3 inches of rainfall the area usually sees for the entire month. “If we had gotten an inch and a half or two inches of rain, rather than the 10 inches we got here, we would have had probably three or four times the performance out of those crops,” Dowdle said. Now, even as things are starting to dry out, he fears losing a portion of crop yield come harvest. When he returned Monday, he stood in at least three inches of water covering one of his buckwheat and hay fields. While Rob Dowdle was away from his business, Dowdle Family Farms, for two weeks this month, he heard about heavy rainfall affecting local farms, but he wasn’t sure how his fields would fare.
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