How has rain affected farmers and flower growers this year?

Here's the latest comment from Mark Badertscher, agricultural and natural resources educator for Hardin County.

On Friday, he reported: "As I write this week’s Hardin County Agriculture and Natural Resources Update, it is raining again.  The abundance of rain has not only caused problems with this year’s planting season, but it has also affected horticultural plants as well.  I have been getting a flood of plant problems being brought into the office for diagnosis and recommendations.  Most of these problems have symptoms of either too much water or fungal diseases caused by the wet spring and early summer we have experienced so far."