We're seen triple digit weather recently, and corn crops already have significant damage from the heat.

"The temperatures we're having are just wiping it out completely" says Jeffrey Kaigler ,a farmer who says hasn't experienced a drought like this on his corn crops since 2008. "I don't think I've ever seen it this dry for over this large of an area on my farm."

Kaigler farms 65 acres in Calhoun County and says almost all of it is dried up.

"I'm 6-foot-4 this crop should be 12-foot-tall on an average year. Now as you can see it's probably 4-feet tall" he says. The color should be dark green, should not be brown. Not at this stage it will turn brown when it's ready to harvest but not this early".

Kaigler is not the only farmer experiencing severe loss. In fact, Harry Ott with the USDA's Farm Service Agency says he's getting calls from farmers all over the state.

"We've had reports from one county already up to 70 percent loss I've witnessed some fields myself that are probably at 100 percent loss" says Ott. Ott is still collecting reports but says we're close to requesting a disaster designation. "I regretfully believe it is particularly on corn".

Orangeburg, Williamsburg and sections through the middle of the state could reach those points soon.

"We just have to carry it to the end and hope for the best that's all we can do" Kaigler says he'll make it through, somehow.

Source - http://www.wltx.com/