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Rainy June swamps Suffolk farmers, has them seeking help
Philip Schmitt crouched beside newly sprouted lettuce at his Riverhead farm, where water from last Monday's rain still sat in murky pools between the rows. "This was all flooded," he said. The spinach crop that languished here just weeks ago had to be plowed under. "We harvested nothing." Lost sales, he said, top $100,000. The Suffolk County office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday...
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