For now, it is a waiting game for the fall harvests. However, there can be (and are) plenty of differing opinions concerning the status of crops in the U.S. and elsewhere, and there are always opposing views about values and what is likely to direct such and in what direction.There is a great variety of not very pleasant things to discuss these days. This of course includes the endless political strife in Washington that seems to turn every issue and topic into a controversy; the potential destabilization of trade with Canada and Mexico if NAFTA is terminated; the Trump administration’s approach toward trade issues in general; and the complex, highly emotional subject of immigration. We also cannot ignore the enormous human and economic dam...