for u-s farm report, i'm clinton griffiths. thanks, clinton. american farm bureau told me this week for every billion dollars of trade created for the u-s, it's means 75 hundred jobs here at home. when we come back, john phipps. john phipps. john phipps. earlier in the show, you heard from an ag banker who said we need to see major cost farmer wants to know why so much buzz is about rental rates. and to answer, here's john phipps. doug northrup from letcher, south dakota chimes in on a big topic in farmer circles: cash rents. "can you tell me why rent is the only option to go down? i know rent is high, but we have been told that we must pay more for 1. fertilizer, 2. tires, 3. seed corn, 4. trucking 5. steel, urance, corn now cheap. the cost can and should come down from all areas." doug, thanks for writing. your mug is on the way. this topic is all over the farm media and dominates farmer conversations, for good reason: we're exhausting our working capital by growing crops below breakeven. while cash rents have been singled out as the target f