The Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries is launching an effort to provide hay for Texas cattle producers who have suffered losses due to wildfires in the Texas panhandle.
Farmers across the state are hoping for rain after hundreds of acres of their crops have been destroyed due to the extreme temperatures. “This is the first year out of the last four or five we’ve run into this,” Covington County farmer Tommy Thompson says. Thompson says he planted about 300 acres of corn fields in mid-March. Two months later, all…
Its getting close to Alabama’s harvest season. Hay, peanut and cotton farmers are experiencing difficulties due to the heavy amounts of rain. Jesse Oglesby and his family own a hay farm. He says this season has not been kind to their farm. “It has been terrible,” Oglesby said. “Last year, there wasn’t quite as much rain. We were able to…
