EASTON, Md.- Good produce was hard to come by this summer. And it could be more of the same for farmers in the fall.
"Fall crops cabbage, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower are cool weather crops and they are going to have to start planting them before long and all this heat and humidity is going to effect the plants, they're not going to grow as well," said Audrey Callahan, a farmer in Talbot County, Md.
Callahan said it has been a long, hot and expensive summer and worries if the fall crops suffer too, prices for them will go through the roof as well.
"I am sure all the prices are all going to go up on produce the way the weather has been around here this summer," Callahan said.
Fall crops need to grow in specific temperatures and it may be some time before Delmarva cools down.
"It's a cold weather product, it thrives in cool weather I am not saying freezing weather but cool weather - 50s and 60s - is perfect for fall crops," said Dick Roberts.
Roberts has been on a farm since the 1940s. He said irrigation helps but it does not come cheap.
"The downside is that costs of irrigation diesel fuel and so on. So that's the downside of a drought: It costs you more money to produce a product," said Roberts.
