Kentucky needs rain.

And for most of the state, the situation is getting worse.

Details and the impact in tonight's look at weather news.

Now let's take a look at the US drought monitor map from two weeks ago.

On August 20th, a small part of northeastern Kentucky was in a moderate drought.

That's the area you see in light orange.

The yellow area is abnormally dry.

At that time, western Kentucky was considered normal.

Now, let's switch to this week's map, updated Tuesday and released today.

There's much more orange and yellow all over the state.

And western Kentucky is now in a moderate drought.

The worsening drought comes as farmers made late summer rain for soybeans to have them ready for harvest this fall.

Our Laura Rogers spent some time in the field with a Warren County farmer who says it's been weeks since he's had a good downpour.

It's corn harvesting time at Tucker Farms and the Woodburn community of Warren County.

The corn is real nice, mainly because of the July rains.

We had big rain on 4th of July.

We have received the right rains at the right time and our corn crop is actually looking really good so that we keep our eye here.

But there are concerns that won't be the same for other crops.

Going into September.

The ground starting to get dry.

Tucker had a half inch of rain over the Labor Day weekend, but.

Before that, I think we were pushing by 20 days.

22 days since the last rain.

We are dry, especially for this time of year.

That's hurting the yield potential on double crops.

Soybeans as part of a three crop rotation system.

They don't get to get planted until the wheat comes off, so they're just a little bit later in the season.

Light summer rain is your number one priority for your double crop.

Soybean crops need water and livestock need it for forages their food source.

Dry conditions are also a safety hazard.

Sparks can happen fires.

So we're a little concerned about that.

We have a lot of equipment in the field that's moving currently, a lot of crop that still in the field that's really dry.

So throwing a cigaret out a window or even some friction in the field from some of the equipment can start a fire.

It's not just dry weather that has farmers talking.

Tucker, who also needs rain right now for sowing winter wheat, says he's worried about grain prices, something he hears from other farmers as well.

Grain markets at a 15 year low.

Inputs are as high as they've ever been and the market is as low as it's been in many years.

Which makes his operation all the more dependent on good yields.

Farmers take that risk when they put out that crop.

They can't control market conditions, weather conditions.

And unfortunately, rain is something that we absolutely have to have, but we can't control.

Despite weathering those risks and concerns.

Tucker is proud to carry on his family legacy of farming.

Being able to plant a seed and watch it grow from day one up until today when we're harvesting it.

Also, enjoy watching my kids out.

They get a big thrill out of it.

You get a corn plant stall, being able to walk out and pick it up and still see the seed attached to the roots and all that.

And they get a big kick out of that.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Laura Rogers.

Thank you, Laura.

The Tuckers will harvest their soy beans and so winter wheat in October.

In the meantime, they're just hoping for some rain.

Meteorologists say there is a small chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms tomorrow, but that our state's only significant shot at rain through at least the middle of the week.