6/17/21 Today we broke records for the high reaching 102
degrees. It is only Mid-June. A typical June for us is in the 70’s and rarely
ever hits 90. We have been hot and dry, so dry our crops are starting to get desperate.
The corn is rolling, the beans look terrible, and we need the rains! We have
had at least three storm cells roll by, the sky gets blue, the thunder and
lightning roll , the wind blows, and no rain falls. Today was the hottest day
of the year. I had to make a run to Dayton and decided to surprise Jake with Gatorade
and homemade cookies for him and the guys he works with. As I was baking the
cookies, the trash guys came to empty our dumpster, so I ran out with some
fresh cookies and Gatorade for them too. It was nice to bless so many today. Nate and the
boys Jake works with were thrilled with my treats. They were working so hard in
the hot day with the doors open in the shop. Jake had sweat rolling off his
face. He was all smiles after his boys had teased him that he was in big trouble.
Today the bean prices were down nearly a dollar. The whole
state of Iowa is in drought conditions, we are seeing our crop slowly shrivel
up and try to die. If we had perfect rains and temps from this day forward, we
still have lost yield that we can never regain. The dry forecast is not in our
favor. Things are looking bad. The farmers get hit with falling prices on top
of drying crop. It doesn’t make any sense. It never does, what seems logical
never happens with markets. China has been buying all the natural resources it possibly can,
corn, beans, wheat, canola, etc. They are buying up all of our crop and it’s
going to be a real big problem soon. We are exporting goods that we are going
to need. We are setting the already distraught economy up for serious trouble.
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