The days are still warmer than they should be in Clanton, Ala., and the amount of rain that has fallen is still down tremendously.
For most people this means that their grass died early this year or they lost their favorite bed of flowers.
For local farmers, this means that they might not be able to feed their cattle or keep their farms.
After hearing that farmers have been paying $900 to have a load of hay delivered to them, Bush Hog decided to do something about it.
"We felt that if it were not for our farmers we wouldn't be in business, so since we have many trucks that make rounds in the United States, we thought of something we could do to help the farmers," said Bush Hog Director of Distribution Kurt Wallace after talking to executives at the company's headquarters.
Bush Hog's plan is to deliver hay to drought-hit farmers free of charge. They only have to buy their hay. Just a few weeks ago they delivered 34 round bales of Milo hay to Greene County farmers who were in severe need of help.
"We are going to try and do what we can for these farmers who need help. We hope that in our efforts to help the farmers we will wake up our competitors and show them how important the farmers are to us in our line of work," Wallace said.
"Bush Hog is a household name in the farming community. If the farmers have a problem, we want to help them out."
He added that if the Drought Task Force finds other locations to obtain hay, he also will attempt to have Bush Hog trucks routed by those locations as well.
Over the past month the hay relief program, 268 hay bales have been delivered to those in need.
Farmers are paying $57.21 per round bale of hay ordered through the program.
The deadline for ordering and paying for hay through the program is Dec. 31.