Delmarva farmers are busy planting and harvesting

Barley harvest is underway. Wheat harvest will follow in likely less than a month. Corn is basically all planted, and soybeans are making good progress.

The preliminary harvests look pretty good in most areas.

When I was young (few years ago) the saying was "Corn knee high by the 4th of July", meaning that was a good goal.  This field pictured is nearly waist high and and it is about a month before the 4th of July. Farming technology has steadily improved dramatically over the years.  That's a good thing, too, with all the extra mouths to feed across the world in the last 50 years.