ALTAMONT, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- After a string of non-stop rainy weekends that stretched from last November to the end of June, rainfall this summer has been below average, so far.

“Farming. You know, you're at the mercy of the weather. You have no control over it,” explained Jim Gade, a fourth-generation farmer at Gade Farms. He said the heat is tough, but spring was tougher on crops, this year. “That was the biggest challenge this year was the rainy days getting, you know, the farmers who had heavier ground couldn't get on the ground because it was saturated. The soil was cold, and the air temperature was cold. So, nothing really grew until it got warmer.”

However, he explained if he did not have his own water source things could be bad right now for his nearly 60 acres of crops. “We have t

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