Good luck, Melissa. And hope your brother is also on high ground Rap. Wish everyone was.

John, that map you refer to was pretty astonishing. And that was just Iowa, as I recall.

Hard times are about to get harder. Soon, a poor man won't have the price of dried beans and cornmeal.   

I wonder what it would take in terms of acreage for a family of 4 to grow enough corn and beans to feed themselves?