consumers. they are here to say we don t like this. shepard: the price of the corn i want to eat on saturday nights is going up. t is going up. so is the price of beef, chicken, ham, you name it. it will continue rising. we have seen beef up 8% this year. chicken up 7. ham up 6. you will see more of that particularly little later in the season. gerri, thank you. you know, iowa produces more corn than anybody else. and/or any other states. and federal forecasters warn that iowa is on track for its fifth dryest july on records dating back more than a sen at this. are folks in the midwest getting any rain at all this week. i wish i had better news, shepard. we could get half an inch to an inch of rain next five days for areas that really need it. look at the drought. it continues for much of the country. the central u.s. farmers dealing with these exceptional drought conditions and as you can see on the satellite radar