Crop Feedback
Received the following last evening from Clint, and we thank him for taking the time to give this crop report:
"Roger, we took a family vacation from just north of Cincinnati, Ohio to near Ludington, Michigan. Just driving by I thought crops looked great. Going up last week, I could see quite a bit of corn that hadn't tasseled yet, coming home today, much of it has tasseled and things still looked great. A few places showing some drought stress, but honestly between St. Marys and home looked the worst of all, further south you got. It is not in the bin yet, but looks like at least an average crop from what I saw."
Highlights
The Ukraine Maritime Authority made an official statement Saturday saying effective immediately the 6 Russian ports on the Black Sea coast are areas of “war risk,” meaning all of those areas are combat zones. It was confirmed Saturday there was an oil tanker hit about 20 miles from Kerch Strait yesterday.
Russia’s Deputy Chairman of its Security Council, former President Dmitry Medvedev, said Saturday Russia would launch more strikes against Ukrainian ports in response to Kyiv's attacks on Russian ships in the Black Sea, and threatened to hand Ukraine "an ecological catastrophe".
Putin chaired a meeting of the Security Council on Friday which Medvedev attended following the attack on Novorossiysk, in which a Russian Navy ship was badly damaged and in danger of sinking.