If you can see this video-

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This is what it looks like as far as the eye can see on both sides of a Missisippi Delta highway recently driven. Where occasionally a field is visible unflooded, it's usually not planted either.

I think there was a thread on GLP this week saying only 30% of normal spring planting in U.S. has taken place this year, and food prices expected to skyrocket.