Farmers Deal with Truckload of Stress ; Officials Set Up a Seminar to Help Them Cope with the Angst of a Growing Season Marred by Diseases and Too Much Rain.

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First the rains shut down the greenhouse business and wiped out multiple plantings of cucumbers and corn at the Tibbetts Family Farm in Lyman.

Then John Tibbetts had to spend a bundle on fertilizer because it kept washing away. And even though Tibbetts' fields were spared the late blight that ruined the potato and tomato crops at other farms, his tomatoes didn't escape the early blight.

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Farmers Deal with Truckload of Stress ; Officials Set Up a Seminar to Help Them Cope with the Angst of a Growing Season Marred by Diseases and Too Much Rain.

"We are not going to get the screaming crop we normally get. It will be mediocre," Tibbetts said.

Tibbetts and other farmers across Maine are contending with an unprecedented combination of challenges this year. R...

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