According to WBOC 16, it has become evident to many farmers across the Delmarva Peninsula that their crops have reached a point of no return.
A report released Monday by the National Climactic Data Center shows 55 percent of the United States is in a moderate to extreme drought and that includes Delmarva. Soil along Maryland’s Mid-Shore is extremely dry and it is not just from this year. It is an accumulation over the past three years of extreme heat and drought.
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