UNITED STATES
Excessive rains in eastern North Carolina has hit the state’s tobacco farmers particularly hard. In fact, some farmers have said the rain is going to hit their pockets just as hard as it has hit their fields.
Due to heavy rains this year, farmers were not able to get that heavy equipment on the soft soil to harvest the plants, and the plants were either drowning or the leaves were simply too wet to even barn. This lead to delays getting the crop to the market, which opened this year on August 14.