CLARKSTOWN -- Gary Hill knows these hot July days are a crucial time for his corn crop near Muncy.
"They should be six, eight feet tall here. It's just this corn here is pretty well done it's not going to make anything,” said Gary Hill. "Well I wouldn't exactly call it a drought. It's just hot, humid weather for 90 degree weather and the wind blowing is hard on it," Hill continued.
Part of the crop at Tom Styer's farm just a few miles away isn't much better. With the sun beating down on acres of land, Styer says when the Susquehanna River is low farmers know their crops may also be in jeopardy.
"There have been some hard showers that come and go, but they don't count. We need a nice all-day rain. That's what we need," said Tom Styer.
Luckily, the Styer's have a long winding, irrigation system. A little water pumped in from their pond can go a long way. It's why a portion of crops are so much bigger and greener than other crops at the farm.
Styer knows farmers who use the Susquehanna River to water their crops. Others pull water from ponds which are also getting low.
"Their private ponds are about pumped dry. Ours, we are right down the water cable and it pumps out," said Styer.
Styer plans on picking some of his corn crop in the next few weeks whether or not the rain comes.
"Not much you can do but hope for rain and not too much,” said Styer.
