Farmers in the southern part of the province are saying they need rain now. Some farms haven't seen rain for more than five weeks.

Daniel Boudreau of Silver Valley Farms said his strawberries, peas, beans and potatoes have suffered. He described watching dark, grey clouds move over his crop and open up on Fredericton.

"We were crying for it and we might've basically got about a half a dozen drops and that's about it,” he said. Boudreau added this isn’t the weather he was expecting this summer.

“[It’s] definitely disappointing because you expect to have a decent year and then all of a sudden Mother Nature slaps you in the face and says, ‘No you're going to work your ass off just trying to break even,’” he said.

Although many New Brunswickers are happy about the hot weather now, Boudreau said the consequences of a hot, dry summer may come back to bite them later.

"Let's just say, people don't like paying top dollar for stuff you know, but they might have to dig deeper this year,” he said.

Jennifer MacDonald of the Agriculture Alliance of New Brunswick said the solution is two days of constant rain, which wouldn't be enough to repair the damage that's already done, but critical for the fall harvest. Without it, she said, meeting local demand will be difficult.

"And while consumers like to buy local and support local we won't be able to supply that demand because we just will not have the food stuffs available,” she said.