Corn Harvest Time

The farmers are really having a hard time of it with all the rain we have been having. I heard the other day that only 1/5 of the corn had been harvested by this time compared to 1/2 normally by now. We have had so much cold weather too and west of us the snow is piling up. There are even blizzard warnings out in some places in Nebraska.

My cousin in Denver says they get a lot of snow and heard it was headed to Denver too so I would guess everything is white there by now. I hope it holds off for a couple months yet around here. My husband says he can remember one year that the farmers had to wait until Spring to combine the corn because we had an early deep snow. That would be awful, wouldn't it?

Groceries

Have you notice the big rise in groceries? It seems like almost everything has gone up $1. Cereal is really getting high priced and now they are talking of using lots more of our corn for ethanol and that prices will rise more on groceries. The amount of gas they make is really a small percentage of all the gas Americans use so I am not sure it is such a good idea to use so much corn for that instead of food.

Rain

It kind of looks like we could get a little rain later on today or tonight. We sure need it. The Corn is all in tassels now and the ears will be forming and they need rain. The corn leaves look like they are reaching toward heaven asking for a good rain, a soaking rain would be nice.