Yuma, Arizona (Kyma, Kecy) – According to Recent research by Trace Onethey say Yuma County Farm is expected to lose $2.8 million a year to natural disasters.

“Weather experts say we are currently suffering from a 22-year drought here in the southwest,” said Julie Murfrey of the Arizona Federation of Agriculture.

The Arizona Farm Bureau says that loss of agricultural products is another factor that affects food inflation.

“We have a monsoon, but we didn’t have a lot of monsoons in the front end of planting season. That could affect the crops.”

Matt McGuire, Chief Agricultural Officer of JV Smith Company, has farmed here for over 40 years. He shares how the weather has affected his crops.

“The big thing that affected the crops like this year was the heat of September and the coming into October,” McGuire said. “We’ve made the stand lighter, we’ve extended the yield and we’ve made something like that, so we’ve lost the crops to that.”

He says farmers often have to plan ahead to reduce damage and risk.

“It’s difficult to plan a natural disaster, but I know something like when it starts to rain and it’s wet here. Crops,” McGuire said.

Even amid the drought, the Arizona Farm Bureau says Yuma can still continue to succeed due to the sunlight of our place, good soil, available labor and the ability to grow in the winter .

“We have over 300 sunshine, so we can flood, but we have droughts, but most of the time our weather is untouched and there is plenty of sunlight,” Murfrey said. I said that.