Talked to a fellow tonite that made a trip from Missouri to Minnesota. He used to run an ag coop and now sells chemical and fertilizer machinery. He knows a little about crops is the point. He said that the corn that doesnt look poor, is late and small. The early stuff as a rule is uneven, yellow, drowned out, and gone all in the same field. Said it was like this all the way up there. Soybeans were smaller and smaller all the way to Minnesota. If that sounds like a good crop, what would be a bad one? Acres aren't there and bushels wont be there either, this is the 4th of July folks! I've said this before and I'll say it again: an old timer once told me that if the "river bottoms dont raise a crop the hills and praires aren't much better off. So goes the Mississippi so goes the nation." Look back at the historical floods and I think you'll see what he was talkin about. His words not mine, but I think they hold some water.