According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, about 20 percent of Georgia is experiencing some level of drought conditions. And the dryness, coupled with the heat, is taking a toll on some Georgia crops.

“The peanuts that don’t have irrigation are really kind of suffering from the drought,” said Don Koehler, executive director of the Georgia Peanut Commission. “They have not fully developed as far as plants.”

Koehler said farmers who do use irrigation are seeing costs go up.

Hay is an issue in some places, said Pam Knox, a climatologist at the University of Georgia. Some farmers are having to feed their animals hay they’d stored for the winter.

It’s driest in northwest Georgia.

“Really their corn crops are pretty much toast,” said Knox.

It’s not too late, though, for a comeback, said Koehler.

“If things were to really turn around and it got pretty nice and cool, and we got maybe two tropical storms that didn’t have a lot of wind, but brought some good general soaking rains, things could turn around some,” he said.