**The owners of Tate Farms would like to stress to teachers and parents, the farm is only closing on a day to day basis, not for the entire season. You will be contacted if you have a field trip and the weather is causing issues, otherwise, head out for pumpkin pickin'!!**

The rainy weather is devastating a local business in more ways than one.

The Owners of Tate Farms in Meridianville are losing money this year.

 Three times in the last week, owners have had to close the farm.

Owner Jackie Tate, "In fourteen years that we've been doing business this is the worst we have ever seen it."

The rainy weather is not only hurting their crops but it's dampening the largest pumpkin picking business in the Valley.

Tate says, "It has really created a problem. The pumpkins are deteriorating. We still had a really, really good crop but the longer they stay in the fields, the wetter they stay. "

And the wet weather has also forced the owners to cancel field trips with local schools

"We have seventeen thousand students, parents, and teachers booked and we're probably losing about ten to twelve thousand dollars a day when we can't open" she said.

If the farm doesn't open, about a hundred employees can't work.

"I can't pay them if people aren't coming. I can't make the money to pay my employees so it's a double edge sword for us this year" said Tate.

However, the owners are keeping their fingers crossed that the weather will get better. 

As for the canceled field trips, Tate says, they have been rescheduled. 

Reporter: Tiffaney Bradley