How are the crops progressing up there?
Driving to see my father, I noticed that the CenTex farmers have got all the wheat in, and are starting on their corn fields. We had the best weather in memory, but are now setting record low temps for the past three nights.
Strange weather, indeed.
The crop looks good. It's raining a slow, gentle rain right now which will help to fill out the soybean pods. We haven't had much heat this summer so things are not maturing as rapidly as they would like for them to.
There's some Sudden Death in the beans. Nothing you can do about it at this point. Sudden death is caused by a fungus in the soil and the only way to prevent it is to plant varieties which are resistant to it.
I have a meeting in DM this afternoon at 4:00 so I'll be hitting the road soon.