The nice weather we’re having is making New Jersey farmers optimistic about the growing season.

After cool, wet conditions in the early spring posed some problems for planting, growers say recent warm, sunny weather is causing crops to flourish.

John Ebert is co-owner of Springdale Farms in Cherry Hill.

“Our tomato crop looks better than it normally does at this time of the year. Corn it’s a little too early to tell yet because the temperatures got to get a bit warmer, but based on what is already in the ground it looks like it’s going to be a pretty good year.”

Anthony DiMeo III owns DiMeo Fruit Farms in Hammonton. He says there’s an abundant blueberry crop this year.

“This year was a great year for pollination. The bees had a lot of opportunity to do their work. The yield looks great this year for most of the farmers in our area, and we expect that our yield is going to be about 20 percent higher than last year.”

DiMeo says that means consumers will be paying less for blueberries.

“Typical pricing can range from anywhere from $2.95 to almost $5 a pint, but this year we’re hoping prices are going to be more towards $1.50 to $1 a pint.”

DiMeo says farmers are having difficulty getting migrant workers to help them harvest their crops. He many of those workers returned to their homeland during the recession, and they’re now finding it much harder to get back into the country.