kevin craney of rjo futures joins us now. kevin, how are commodity traders preparing for crop trades this spring? > > it is certainly of particular concern. when we look at where the drought monitor shows right now, we haven't had a lot of snowfall during the winter, so it is really going to take a lot of rain coming in through the spring season to bring the water table levels up. and that is a concern for the new crop corn that could potentially be planted. so it's something that's on traders' minds, and could be a bullish factor going into the spring season. > who were the winners in the market last year? > > i think the real winners were, one, from a speculative standpoint, the ones who were in the options market early on in the season. we had a big planting number last year, and for all intents and purposes, people thought, "hey, we are going to have a lot of corn." but what happened, mother nature worked her magic, it was a drought year, and we really fell behind. so those people who got ahead of the curve early, who were