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Heat Could Force Layoffs For Area Landscape Companies

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The hot weather just isn't effecting farmers, it is effecting landscape companies as well.

"Most of our residential properties we haven't been able to do because of the lack of rain," Brandon Matthew, of PSB Landscaping, told KWQC.

Because of the drought, grass is not growing meaning businesses who cut grass are suffering.

"It has been so slow we worked maybe fifteen to twenty hours last week normally we work 60 or 70 hours a week," Matthew said.

With dry conditions forecasted into next week the threat of layoffs are looming large inside landscaping companies.

"Boss is maybe talking about laying us off you know that's going to effect my family and my co-workers families," Matthew said.