Local farmer talks flooding impacts

WARREN COUNTY, Ky. – For days now, we’ve seen rainfall that’s left behind puddles and flood plains all over the Commonwealth, and the impact is not only affecting drivers on the roads.

Jacob Hunt, a fifth-generation farmer who works with his dad, David Hunt, at Hunt Farms in Warren County, tells us how it’s also impacting corn and the winter wheat that’s already planted.

He says, “As far as the the rain on the effect and the corn, it can only handle so much. The corn seed. How? It has so much vigor before it can get out of the ground. And what we worry about from here on out is the corn saw burned out.”

With water comes growth but with the influx of rainfall.

Stan Pace, a soil expert, shares that this rain could be seen as too much of a good thing.

He says, “The higher volumes of water, we’re going to have higher weed levels. We won’t be able to get into the fields and work them like we need to. So when you add it all up, it makes for a pretty difficult situation. When I’m just looking at the crops.”

Although the weather is not ideal, farmers are prepared to pivot no matter what the circumstances are.