The dry, hot conditions across the state have Governor Mary Fallin calling for Oklahomans to pray for rain to help farmers, families and firefighters to get some relief.
FOX23's Jamie Oberg shows us why farmers say they need all the help they can get and families are doing their part too.
Dry conditions had a hand in more than 140 wildfires in dry fields in Oklahoma already this year.
Firefighters need a break.
Farmers say they could use one too; hay is hard to come by this summer; hay bales are in high demand, beating a record set back in 1919.
"Almost everyone in Oklahoma has the same problems," Hominy farmer & oil man, Brett Northam said.
Brett Northam knows farming isn't easy. "24 hours a day, seven days a week,” he said.
After all that hard, honest work...he just hopes to break even.
"This year's a major struggle,” Brett said. "It’s not gonna be good on the cows this year, and not on our pocketbook."
Baling hay at his ranch in Hominy, he will be lucky to get third of what he should.
Fewer hay bales mean it will cost more money to feed the cattle, without much needed rain, crops will suffer, but these dry, hot conditions don't just affect farmers.
More than 140 grassfires in Oklahoma, flames are fed by the brush and debris, spreading firefighters thin.
"In Osage County this time of year grassfires...that's on the verge of getting really bad,” Brett said.
The weather even has governor Mary Fallin is asking Oklahomans to pray for rain.
"I’m game for anything, anything that makes the sky let loose of some water and rain; I'm all for it,” Brett said of the Governor’s request.
No amount of rain will help what this baler is already picking up.
A farmer's church is often the field, "Sure wouldn't hurt." It takes a lot of faith to farm in the first place...and Brett hopes all the prayers from the pews and these fields will help bring the rain.
