Sherman, TX - Bruce Wetzel has been a farmer in Sherman all his life, learning from his father back in the 1960's.

"Farming is just part of me, I've never done anything else, I wouldn't know what to do if it wasn't for the farming business,” said Wetzel.

He's seen all the ups and downs of producing wheat and corn in Texoma, and he says this was one of the worst years for corn.

"A lot of our corn that we're making right now has the Aflatoxin in it so some of it may be completely unmarketable,”

But unlike the rest of Texas, a harsh drought wasn't what plagued farmers in our area, the Farm Service Agency said it was all the rain.

"Well you know extremes of anything, too much rain can be just as harmful as not as much,” said Burt Darwin, the County Executive Director at the Farm Service Agency.

"All the rain we got back in April and May, we got 20 inches of rain in a two week period there, really just damaged our corn. Our corn just never quite recovered from too much water,” said Wetzel.

Wetzel says he lost about 50% of his wheat and corn crops this harvest season, a ttrend that farmers are experiencing across Texoma.

"Right now the yields are very erratic, where the soil is well drained the corn crops are better, where it wasn't where the water stood are greatly reduced, we're also seeing a log Aflitoxin numbers coming in. We’re also seeing a lot of Aflatoxin numbers coming in,” said Darwin.

Those Aflatoxins are a fungus that have contaminated most of the corn crops, making it toxic if the levels are too high. Which means the bad crops could mean tough times ahead for farmers like Wetzel.

"It makes it pretty tough to go to the banker and try to work out a cash flow for next year... And our family budget you know, we're going to have to watch it closer,” said Wetzel.

And this year’s harvest was delayed by about a month this year due to the heavy rains over the past couple of weeks. Wetzel says this causes even more problems because it can knock over the stalks and make even more of the corn crop un-harvestable.