(WKBN) -- Rainfall since Aug. 1 has been two inches below normal, and it doesn't look as if there's going to be any rain at least through Saturday.

The lack of rain raises some questions: How are farmers faring? What has the lack of rain done to this year's crop? How about your lawn? What should you do about that?

First News spent some time in the corn and soybean fields of Springfield Township, where farmers are not yet harvesting, but there are some places where it's so dry that the corn is being harvested.

"Some of those crops are drying down quicker than we normally see, and there's kind of a moisture window -- an ideal moisture content window that we like to stick within," said Haley Shoemaker with the Mahoning County Extension Service.

Shoemaker says it's not just grain farmers t

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