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People across the Southeast are still recovering from Hurricane Helene, which swept through Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Virginia in late September this year and caused devastating damage. But some of the people who are struggling the most right now are farmers, and it could possibly have a negative impact on your holiday season.
Mike Yoder, the associate director of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University, told the Carolina Public Press, «This is the worst agricultural year we have had in North Carolina history.» The new organization also reports:
Farms tend to be located in the region’s fertile river bottoms, and when those rivers swelled and roared, they took crops, barns, bails of hay, miles of fencing, farm roads, cattle, farm equipment and acres of topsoil.
Higher-elevation farms dealt with landslides and high winds. Loss of refrigeration took out stores of meat and dairy products. Some farmers are dealing with the possibility that they might not be able to recover their farms at all.
Hurricane Helene wasn’t the only major weather event that farmers in North Carolina dealt with this year.
