something as basic as our food supply and prices at the grocery store. we re in the midst of the worst drought in more than 50 years covering 64% of the area of the continuous 48 states, the sustained record-breaking heat and dry weather has caused corn and soybean crops to deterri deterrierate. setting an all-time high of $8.28 a bushal on friday. on the same day, soybean prices reached a record high. it s true that to some extent rising food prices are part of a general boom in commodities. second month in a row, the global land temperature was the warmest on record for that month. we re looking at our own future, a new normal that is going to radically alter farming and impact food prices. as we saw just a few years ago when spiking food prices, a world food volatility is a world of political volatility.