“Mother Nature dictates everything,” she said.
They’ve had one field flood where they were to plant late-season crops. They had to change that plan moving that plating upland.
“Game of chess. We have a few acres were able to keep planting on.”
She’s also monitoring river levels.
“Most of our cropland, almost 30 acres worth of cropland, is down on the banks of the Connecticut River.”
Fran Whelan of Hayes Farms in Rocky Hill was checking in on his flooded cornfields.
It was tough to get in touch with CT farmers today…
Many were out assessing flooded crops, like 5th gen. farmer Fran Whelan of Hayes Farm in Rocky Hill (pic).
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