A warm period in February could break more than one record this week in the bluegrass state. It’s too soon to say if these unseasonable conditions will affect crop growing farmers this spring.
If temperatures in Lexington exceed 80 degrees, that would be a new record for the entire month of February. With the warm weather has come a great deal of rainfall this month. But, University of Kentucky Agriculture Meteorologist Matt Dixon says conditions could still change for the better before planting season arrives. “It’s really hard to say solidly right now what the impacts are going to be moving into late March early April. We don’t really have a good idea on that forecast right now,” said Dixon.
But, for now, farmers are facing some challenges getting feed to livestock because muddy and flooded fields are creating constraints on mobility. Warm temperatures are expected to continue over the next week or so.
