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Drought spells trouble for U.S. farms, but may present advantage for N.J. growers
While a drought in the nation’s breadbasket has driven down crop supply and pushed up food prices for consumers, New Jersey’s slightly improved climate has yielded more crops in the state, and allowed local farmers selling on the national market to bring in more money, according a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Agriculture
“New Jersey has been fortunate to escape some of the really bad drought conditions centered in the Midwest,” spokesman Jeff Beach said. “We had our spells, and we got to a point where we would have been having a problem, but then we had rain last week and it was enough to keep it from becoming drastic.” (Eder, NJBIZ)