I rode east with my wife yesterday to visit a couple houses she's listing for sale. I thought things looked bad here! We drove through Tate Twnsp,Clermont Co,and Bethel, and thru Hamersville,Clark Twnsp, Georgetown,Pleasant twnsp,to Russellville, Jefferson twnsp, Brown Co,Ohio 20-25 miles on St RT 125 past some of our finest,upland farms,and nothing is planted yet,and it just rained again last night. After a cold wet winter,we had a spring break in early April where farmers fertilizied and sprayed herbicide on the fields they intended to plant in corn and soybeans. But it was too early to plant seed. Now,we have had 2 months of the fields being too muddy. Almost no field is planted,and the few that are,1 excepted, have a poor stand,and many weeds. I see the best vegetable garden in my 3\4 mile walk east, and a very poor stand of corn in my mile walk west. Most fields I saw had been sprayerd for weeds. Period. The calandar's running against the farmers. It's about too late to plant even a short season corn variety. "If" it quits raining today, they'll have a few days to plant soybeans. And I saw 1 small field of just transplanted tobacco. 1 field only,and we were crossing the tobacco belt. Dad always talked of 1917,when they played horseshoes all spring waiting for the fields to get dry enough to plant,and finally, they got their corn planted very late, and had an early autumn freeze kill it before it had ears formed. They filled their barns with the frosted stalks,but had a blizzard-ice storm early that kept the livestock in the barn,and they were starving on that poor feed before winter broke. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!