'The plant is basically...eating itself up trying to survive,' one Texan farmer said.
Speaking to KXAN-TV in Austin, Mau Morales, the agriculture manager of the Sweet Eats Fruit Farm in Georgetown, said his farm is responding to the heat wave by watering plants and other crops more frequently than normal.
"We used to irrigate them maybe once a week or every other week, but now we have to irrigate two times per week. That's for all our products," Morales told the local station. Gary Joiner, a spokesperson for the Texas Farm Bureau, told KXAN that row crops such as corn and sorghum could be the most affected by the heat wave.
"Those varieties are planted in a timely way to hopefully avoid some of the most strenuous periods of high heat, but they are also victimized by high temperatures, dry conditions when moisture is not present. Those crops suffer," Joiner said.that"new seed varieties for cotton, corn, wheat, grain sorghum and other crops offer improved drought tolerance traits that are beneficial in battling the Texas summer heat.
He continued:"Farmers maximize the amount of moisture in the soil by utilizing sound conservation practices on the land. The conversation practices allow plants to access whatever moisture is available, even in the driest of periods."
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