Millions of acres have gone unplanted as the dry weather so desperately needed by Midwest corn farmers never came. Though some farmers are switching to plant soybeans, many in the Eastern Corn Belt never turned a wheel in the field and could only watch their fertilizer waste away with hopes for sunshine.
Those who got planted were thrilled to see prices zoom ahead by another 25 cents per bushel this week to $4.60 by Friday.
Our heart goes out to those who couldn’t plant.