Brandon Sun
By: Tyler Clarke
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The weekend rains meant a lot to area farmers, but they’ll need much more than that to make it through the year.
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Keystone Agricultural Producers president Bill Campbell uses the "12-inch ruler" metric.
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"It’d be ideal if we had 12 inches of rain throughout the growing season for the crop, and right now we have one inch," he said, adding that while the weekend rains were encouraging, "we’re not near the finish line yet."
On the plus side, he said the rains should be enough to get most crops germinated throughout Westman, with those crops sowed now having enough moisture to get started.