If anybody is imploring God to send some dry weather to Pontotoc County it would be the farmers. Thus far the county has received 36.17 inches of rain over the first four months, compounded with a wet late fall and winter farmers have not been able to prepare their soil and get the crops in the ground like they need to this year.

MSU Extension Agriculture Agent James Shannon said that farmers have said to him that the planting season is behind schedule.