Unseasonably wet weather mixed with freezing temperatures are hurting farmers throughout South Georgia. They say they're having a hard time growing their crops because the fields are still wet from all the rain.

"We've been planting cabbage for 40 years and never had a real problem 'til this year," Don Jones, vegetable farmer in Calvary, Georgia, said.

Jones says his crops are unable to grow because of the record amount of rainfall that left his fields soaking wet.

"Undoubtedly it has completely drowned out the root system so it just can't grow. They're too moist, not enough sunshine to dry out the ground so every time we get rain it just adds more to the root system which stunts it that much more," Jones said.

Agriculture officials say they expected the cold and wet weather, but they didn't expect it to last this long or hurt them financially."

"Vegetable farmers are hurting financially because it's delayed crop is going to be late to harvest and it's hurting them financially. It's hurting our harvest. It's hurting the income, farmers had a lot of money in this crop," Grady County Extension Agent Don Clark said.

Now, farmers are going to have to wait until warmer temperatures head their way to dry out the fields, but all this waiting is delaying harvest.

"We haven't given up yet, but it kinda looks like it's going to be a pretty tough situation. Normally we pick cabbage first of April, but now the first of May," Jones said.

Farmers say their eyes are on the sky and they're hoping mother nature gives them a little break.. and a lot of sunshine.

Agriculture officials also say because the crops are just sitting in saturated water, they may not have as strong of a crop this year like they would typically have.