It should come as no surprise to ginseng growers that it has been exceptionally wet this year since the beginning of June and especially this fall. Don’t take my word for it. Figure 1 shows a map of precipitation relative to normal for the past 90 days. The entire ginseng production area is indicated at “exceptionally high” and falls within the 98th to 100th percentile. This means that precipitation this far above normal for that period of time would only be expected to occur in a maximum of 2 in every 100 years. Most of the ginseng production area is also in the exceptionally wet zone for the past 180 days (Figure 2).
