RALEIGH -- If you ask a farmer, the weather is never quite right -- too hot, too cold, too dry or too wet. Depending on where you in North Carolina, you can find varying degrees of problems on the fields this year, according to State Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler.

“We have been slow in planting cotton peanuts and tobacco because we’ve had wet spells even in the piedmont that kept us out of the field” says Troxler. “It has hampered not only the planting, but now we’re in the picking season and we’re hearing that its interrupting the picking of  squash and cucumbers and b cantaloupes, greens. Blueberries and other crops”

He tells SFNTODAY.com that tropical rains have caused problems in the eastern part of the state.  He says heavy rains in the northeast have harmed crops including corn, soybeans and wheat

Troxler says drier than normal conditions mean that cattle farmers in western North Carolina will get a below average first cutting of hay,

“We have 14 counites (in the mountains) that are in moderate drought and another  four that are moderately dry,” says Troxler.

He says a late freeze also impacted the peach crops in areas such as Moore County.