Heavy Rains This Week Hurt Arkansas Farmers
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Farmers say heavy rains that hit Arkansas in
the past week have halted schedules for the soybean, rice and
cotton harvests.
Bill Robertson, a cotton specialist with the Arkansas
Cooperation Extension Service, says the cloudy and cool weather has
halted the development of the cotton crop.
Robertson says many cotton farmers were aiming to put
insecticide on their almost-harvestable crops this week. But
they`ll have to push it back because of the rain. Robertson says
some cotton farmers would like to start harvesting next week.
Other experts say flooding from recent heavy rains has affected
soybean farmers in far northern and southern Arkansas. They say
high water is interfering with the harvest in the southern part of
the state. The rains are keeping rice farmers out of the fields as
well.
