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Written: morning of 11/12/08

Well the past couple of days have been so so. We have been planting both of the previous days, however we haven't gotten much done. The reason is because our 8410 has been acting up. Ever since the first day of planting, the tractor seems to have a power issue. Somewhere in the diesel pump I presume. Anyways, I have been planting the last two days around 3.5 km/h. SLOW. That's 2.2 mph slow. That's the corn emerging on the previous pass before I get to the other end slow. That's getting out of the tractor while it's moving to go to the bathroom and still get back in slow. Thats even Francis Child SLOW. Regardless were getting corn in the ground, and we hope to fix the tractor today. We might get to plant corn today at, wait a minute ................ 6 mph!!!!

Sounds like the other farms are getting started as well. One of the south Farms, Global, has been planting popcorn for the past couple of days as well when there is no rain. So were slowly but surely getting things started down in Brazil. Hopefully they will quickly speed up and get all the seed in by the end of the month. I'm crossing my fingers!!!

Take care everyone!!


Signing off............


- Hrubes (aka Francis Childs)