- Van Wert Courtesy of Farm Bureau member John Parker - If you
live in town, take some time to travel around the county. You
will see some fields of corn and soybeans that look to be very
good. And then you will see some that are in trouble and
probably won't make a crop. In our area we are considerably more
fortunate than further west where fields will have zero harvest.
But remember, what happens out there on the farm affects your
pocketbook. As you watch the news media, you get a little idea
of the serious situation we are faced with as a country. Every
day estimates of yields of corn and soybeans drop and that will
hit all of us in the pocket book. Crop reports across the
country indicate the situation is much more serious than the
mainstream media tells us. Both corn and soybeans are crops that
are used in many different ways, more than we realize. There are
about 500 different uses for corn, many that we don't realize.
Three of the main uses for the crop are for ethanol, corn
sweeteners and livestock fe