The Philadelphia region just broke a 150 year record, the longest streak of consecutive days without any measurable rain.

That dry spell includes new Jersey, which is set to experience the driest October on record.

Large chunks of the state are still under moderate and severe drought.

The dry, warm weather has created the perfect environment for wildfires.

Several hundred have ignited since last month.

Several new fires.

Just since this weekend alone.

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service has placed all 21 counties under very high fire danger.

And the state is still asking residents to voluntarily conserve water.

The situation is creating a number of challenges for farmers in the Garden State who are doing their best to cope with the conditions, even if their crops are not.

Ted Goldberg reports.

The ongoing drought is posing problems for New Jersey's farmers.

Whether they grow feed for animals, I've never seen it this dry or cranberries.

This is clearly the worst we've ever seen here.

The reservoir at Stephen Lee's Cranberry Farm is seven feet below its normal line.

We're at 30 days at this point without any substantial rain events.

And the pond at Clover Valley Farm looks more like a dust bowl.

We haven't had any measurable rainfall in over two months.

More?

Yeah, even more than in before.

That was very dry.

Danielle and Fred Wainwright have more than 200 head of cattle.

And 80 turkeys at Clover Valley Farm.

Behind us should be green pastures.

It has all dried up pasture.

You can see how good, how close to the ground the cows have eaten this grass trying to get anything they could out of it.

It's very little green that's trying to grow back out of it because it's so dry.

They estimate that because of the drought, their losses are in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Having to pay for food after not being able to grow enough of it.

It just hurts our bank account that we have to go buy feed elsewhere when we've already put in the expenses of the fertilizer, the seed to plant crops this spring.

The driest two month period in recorded state history has also threatened the state's supply of cranberries.

Lee says he's avoided the worst of it thanks to some prior planning.

We have a well that we've put in actually in 1997 for this type of situation, although we never anticipate on having to need it to this level.

We've spent more money on on diesel fuel, probably in the last, probably in the last three weeks than we have in the entire year thus far.

But not every cranberry farmer has been so lucky.

And Lee, like others, is hoping for rain to break the dry spell.

We've got to have water to be able to flood, to protect for the winter.

And so what we've done is we've gone back and installed our sprinklers to be able to protect from drought number one, but potentially have to use the sprinklers to be able to protect in the wintertime where it gets very, very cold.

Because unless we get some substantial rain events over the next couple of weeks, we're going to have a challenge for next year's crop.

When the rains do come, we just need a slow, steady rain.

We don't need a monsoon because of how dry the grounds are.

The rains will just run off and run off the seed.

Run off the fertilizer.

The drought puts the state at much higher risk for wildfires, something Lee is very concerned about.

When you have a fire that would start out, perhaps it up a Pie hill or the other side of Chatsworth, it may not stop until it gets to the Garden State Parkway because it's so dry.

And the area that we're in, the Highlands National Reserve is so dry that it could have a detrimental effect on, on the environment and specifically on the region.

As for how much longer the drought could last, there are signs that this pattern is beginning to break down.

But it's not going to break here first.

We're going to be the more resistant area under the high pressure.

The dry weather has provided some positives for new Jersey farmers.

Agriculture Secretary Edwin Green says it's been good weather for wine growers, and the mild weather has been a boost for agritourism last fall.

It rained every single weekend so the volume wasn't there.

The people coming out this fall, we had one sort of sloppy Saturday.

But the rest of the fall harvest season has been great.

So that's an industry that's kind of rebounding because the weather's been mild.

People have wanting to been going out.

Well, that's a good sign for farmers.

Many of them will be happier when rains starts to fall and washes away this drought.

In Burlington County, I'm Ted Goldberg, NJ Spotlight News.