The hot, dry summer hasn’t put the brakes on New Hampshire’s farmers.

“Berry season has gone really well,” said Madison Hardy, president of the New Hampshire Fruit Growers Association. Strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries all had excellent crops, she said, producing a long picking season that has extended into August, depending on the variety of berry that was planted.

“Hot weather can make them ripen faster, but it also makes them grow,” said Hardy.

Jeremy Delisle of UNH Cooperative Extension agreed.

“Everything’s doing great. All varieties, early season through late season,” he said. The fact that most of the state’s berry farms have installed irrigation carried them through record high temperatures, although the recent bout of heavy rain is still welcome.

Stone fruits – those with a large pit inside such as peaches, nectarines and plums – are doing well, too, Hardy said. Apple picking season is still a few weeks away.

Corn is also doing well, said Martha Crete of Highway View Farm in Boscawen, with a wet spring followed by hot June kicking it off. “It came in early. We started selling probably 10 days earlier than usual,” she said.

Crete added that even when things go well, farming can throw you a curve ball.

“We have been hindered by a lot of bird damage this year,” she said. “The birds come in on migration. Usually they stop here for a week or so but this year they have been here longer and what they do is they eat the top one to two inches of the ears of corn.”

A successful season for wholesale farms and those that depend on pick-your-own or farmstand business is welcome because last year was wet and cool, with a February cold snap that basically wiped out most stone fruits throughout the Northeast.