date:Nov 01, 2012
Hurricane Sandy put a damper on wheat and cotton crops locally.
Some of the wheat planted last week in Virginia Beach will likely be affected by the rain blitz, according to Roy Flanagan, agriculture extension agent at the Virginia Cooperative Extension.
We had a lot of flooding while the storm was going on, Flanagan said.
Water may have pooled on top of the newly planted seeds once the soil became over-saturated, he said. The result could be a spotty stand, with empty sections of the field.