BUCYRUS, KS (KCTV) — Kansas farmers have battled a drought for a majority of 2018 and through the state recently received large amounts of rain, they say, for some crops, it’s too little, too late.
Farmers say their corn suffered the most as some is currently only half the size it is supposed to be.
They say the drought will affect their overall production.
In an average year, Kansas farmers harvest 150 bushels of corn per acre.
Officials say the drought is not the worst one the state has experienced but farmers say the little rain they did get was spotty, making for an uneven harvest.
“It was just crazy you know.
My house, I would have an inch and a half, my brother lives down the road and would get nothing and that seemed to happen more than once,” farmer Ted Guetterman said.
He says the corn started to turn brown in July, something normally not seen until the fall.
While the corn at Guetterman Brothers Family Farm is suffering, the soybean and wheat crops are in such good shape that farmers say they do not need any more water.
We have a lot of technology here on the farm but that’s the one thing we can’t do is control the weather,” Guetterman said.