stalled industry

near four tenths of an inch of rain yesterday brings the months total to approximately two and four tenths inches give or take a few hundredths...

and, while this morning's sky looks threatening, it may just be a threat...that doesn't help out much in the industrial fields however...threat or no threat things are getting dodgy..

there are still many acres that have not seen farm equipment yet this season...

and there is water standing in both fields that have not been worked...

and those that have...

i did find planted fields...given the small number i covered i would not want to make any large scale guesses ( and they would be guesses ) about how many fields have actually been worked locally...however it seemed about a fifty-fifty split between planted and unplanted in what i saw...i had a difficult time discerning what these are from the roadside...looks like beans to me...i have been wrong before though...

this is unmistakably a field of dense yellow #2...even at a distance...the only one i could identify with any certitude..."knee high by july" may be wishful thinking here...

and that was directly across the road from one that has been fallowed...probably by the weather...it is late in the season fior planting beams, much less field corn...some people are worried and it is showing...

may corn futures were up $9.59 a metric ton...

and yesterday's settlement price was even higher...looking for a price increase in the popular and wholly extruded hot pockets soon.