Well, we are back at the old farm house in Tennessee after a 14 hour marathon drive from Wisconsin. Good to be back in our own nest. Cooler temperatures in Mid Tennessee today, after the incredible hot summer we have gone through. While traveling back across Iowa, Illinois, parts of Kentucky into Tennessee I saw miles and miles of parched corn that has been ruined by the extreme heat and lack of rain early on in the season. Some of it, which should be 6 to 8 ft high by now, was stunted at a couple of feet high, brown and ruined. The thing is, that is not just corn in a field, that is the total sum of a years work for a lot of the farmers , who now will have no income to pay money borrowed to plant the crop, to pay for equipment and support their families. It's a sad state of affairs for these farm families, and it will, ultimately, affect all of us in the grocery store, it is not only corn, but grain, soy beans, pasture, hay fields...all of which will have a dramatic affect on cattle and hog prices. Coming into the Fall and Winter season, cattle feed is going to be sky high and hay even higher. I experience this situation on our family farm in the Ozarks during the 50's drought years. I understand the challenges these folks are facing and my prayers are with them today. May God bless us all in these troubled times. -Stan
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