CONCORD, N.H. — At Lavoie’s Farm in New Hampshire, beans and corn haven’t broken through the ground yet and fields of strawberries are stunted.

The drought that has taken hold in the Northeast is especially felt at John Lavoie’s farm in Hollis, N.H., presenting him with some tough choices. Irrigation ponds are drying up, forcing him to choose between tomatoes and berries or fruit trees.

Lavoie decided to hold off watering the trees so he could quench the tomato and berry plants before they succumb to the heat.

“We need some rain pretty quick,” Lavoie said. “There is just some corn that won’t make it. A lot of things we would like to give water to, we can’t.”

The dry blast in New Hampshire is being felt throughout the Northeast, from Maine to Pennsylvania, driven by a second year of below-average rainfall. Though not as dire as the West Coast drought of five-years, the t weather has stressed farms and gardens. In the hardest hit areas of western New York, Massachusetts and southern parts of New Hampshire and Maine, it’s been dryer than in a decade or more. And experts predict the drought will persist at least through October.

“The Northeast is a little bit of a mixed bag, but the bottom line is that the conditions have deteriorated over the past several weeks,” said Rich Tinker, a drought specialist.

If there were a drought epicenter, it probably would be Massachusetts. More than 74 percent of the state, according to the United States Drought Monitor, is experiencing some degree of drought and almost the entire state is dry.

Many Massachusetts farmers are hurting, said Katie Campbell-Nelson, a vegetable production specialist with the UMass Extension. Yields and quality are down, and irrigation costs are up.

“Some farmers are abandoning crops because it’s not worth the financial risk of harvesting them,” Campbell-Nelson said.

The dry conditions have raised the risk of wildfires in Massachusetts, said Dave Celino, chief forest fire warden for the state Department of Conservation and Recreation. Typically, the state has about 1,600 wildland fires a year. But this year, it’s already seen more than 1,000.

Some wells are going dry in Connecticut. And the blueberry crop in Maine will be slightly smaller this year than the past two, said Nancy McBrady of the Wild Blueberry Commission of Maine.