Long Stretch Of Rain Impacting Maryland Agriculture

BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Rain that soaked Maryland’s metro areas also hit the Eastern Shore. So much rain fell, that spring crops were washed out on many shore farms.
“We’ve had about 12 inches of rain over the last week or so. The fields are saturated and a lot of crops are drowned out,” said Caroline County farmer John Fuchs.
Fuchs lost 70 acres of peas. Farmer Matt Taylor says he lost not only peas, “but corn, soybeans, stuff like that has all been impacted. We als