The recent rainfall is keeping many local farmers from planting their seasonal crops.
Schroeder Farms Owner Rich Schroeder said it's been especially tough since many of his vegetables need to be planted around this time.
"If we get a couple good dry days maybe we can hit it and get some in but it's going to delay the season," he siad. "It will be later in the year before there's any abundance of locally grown fresh produce."
The ground has been too wet...
The recent rainfall is preventing local farmers from planting their summer crops.
Mark Mechling with the Muskingum County OSU Extension Office said usually 15% of the corn crops are planted around this time, but right now they're only at about 1%. Vegetables, hay, and meadow seedings have also been delayed.
"We're confident once the weather does break that farmers will be able to get a lot of planting done in a relatively short amount of time, it's still going to take...
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