'Looks a lot more like March than it looks like June' | Business

Record-setting spring rains have put farm crops at risk for disease and pushed backed the date that fruits and vegetables will be ready for market.

Tom Lively at Lively Organics gave Molly Blancett and Bill Goetz from KVAL News a tour of what the rain is doing to his crops.

"I'm seeing a lot of mud," Lively said. "It looks a lot more like March than it looks like June."

The season got off to a good start. Then a wetter than usual May set in, followed by record-setting rain in early June.

"We haven't been able to get in with tillers or hoes because it's so muddy that it would just clump up in the equipment," Lively said."

The result: "I think what you are going to see is a lot of later produce. And I would say that you will definitely see less of some things."

And produce currently in production is going to waste.

"By Saturday, pretty much all the melons we had planted had root rotted and died in spots," Lively said. "We just had big rows of dead melons."

Watch KVAL.com and KVAL 13 News at 5, 6 and 11 Thursday for the latest weather forecast and news about the rain's impact on agriculture and city trees.