How farmers deal with storms, and what kind of damage they cause
Eduardo Morales
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – Last week’s storm caused plenty of damage throughout Yuma County. However, luckily for agriculture fields, they weren’t affected as much.
Many of the fields don’t have crops yet, meaning they weren’t in any real danger.
Mike Pasquinelli, the President of the Yuma Fresh Vegetable Association, explains how they can prepare for the rain.
“Some of the things we do to help control the flooding or something, we can put borders around the fields, we just do as much as we can but Mother Nature has her way with this,” says Pasquinelli.
However, there were still some minor repercussions and setbacks due to the storm.
“We have cotton and some Sudan grass seed and stuff like that, so it’ll affect it…It can affect the quality of it, our planning schedules for our vegetables were slowed down just because of the water,” Pasquinelli said.
The farmers say that storms are more dangerous and destructive later on in the year when the fields are full of crops.
It could lead to food safety hazards such as contaminating the product.