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Scorching Temperatures Drying Out Crops

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    FBN's Jeff Flock on how the Midwest drought is hurting crops.

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Let's go to Jeff Flock scorching temperatures.

-- on crops across the midwest.

With the state of Indiana getting the worst of it Jeff Flock is down on the farm in -- in that Indiana with more job.

Yet minister -- and down here as well and it may be too late even for prayer tekelec does -- you know we showed you the ground last -- -- in Illinois.

I can dig down in this stuff here -- -- And look how -- this -- you cannot -- you can not find moisture down in this ground.

Now when -- show you the impact of that not only on the corn but on the places take a look at the prices today first of all started with corn futures active CME in Chicago.

Up 31 cents forty cents is the limit.

Look at soybeans.

They are up almost sixty cents last time I took a look.

That's up three and a half percent seventy senses -- -- there and wheat is up to.

-- I've got a farmer here who you've got -- crop behind who's not you don't think it's gonna make much of anything that's right well.

This is basically gone.

And -- -- senior -- one field looks looks kind of bad I'm seeing the silk start to come out on this but this is not gonna pollinate.

This is not gonna pollinate as the castles are not open who has no you don't have the males -- Gotta fertilize the female so this is like you go to low ball are and you the girl of your dreams is they -- which you just don't get there at the right time together.

-- this has -- out one -- little years come out that's how they get pollinated that's not happening right now.

And so what's a mismatch of love on the corn field.

And that's gonna lead to disaster even worse disaster than at the bar yeah you have here's accord and then you're gonna have no kernels on.

And there you go I leave you with this field out here.

I don't know that -- -- -- look at bad.

Anywhere that we seen thus far not good.

And it's gonna affect so much Jeff as we move forward with especially with food price inflation.

Enough player out there Jeff Flock thank you very much a live report from -- where saw happening.

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