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 OMEGA, Ga. (AP) - The sky above Randy Scarbor's south Georgia cantaloupe fields was overcast, but the clouds were from massive wildfires to the east. No rain was forecast for the last day in May, a month that set records for dry conditions in Georgia.
Across the main crop-producing regions of Georgia, the most severe drought in decades — on the heels of the early April frost — is damaging crops and cutting even deeper into farmers' pockets because of the high price of fuel to operate irrigation systems.
"This is critical," said Scarbor, who farms about 350 acres in southern Georgia. "We're going to suffer severe damages, lose maybe half, two-thirds of the crops."
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