pharmacal is $42.99. >>> some stocks on the wall street return to the heart land where hot, dry, weather is threatening some crops, especially corn, soybeans and wheat. temperatures are expected to be above average during the next week and a half with little rain expected according to onestment. july and august will be the driest since 1936 in iowa, illinois and indiana. but as jane wells reports, the recent heat wave isn't stopping many farmers from investing in the new big thing in farming, technology. >>> drought or no drought, the u.s. farm economy has done well for the better part of a decade. strong balance sheets and tax incentives encourage farmers to spend, and they have. >> it's been an excellent couple years. >> reporter: how much does it cost? >> probably more than your house. >> reporter: but as the nation prepares for what could be a record crop or close to it, corn prices have fallen 40% from their $8 highs. and while all equipment manufacturers expect solid, perhaps record-breaking sales this year, next year farmers may take a break. >> they are at a point now where buyin

pharmac age if i can use that term. yes it is we use it more and more drugs for conditions that we don't need to read treatments for but we need drugs to work well for conditions we do need treatment for but the pharmaceutical industry is less and less able to produce the kind of treatments that we need at the moment but in the country though if you and if you hoed shares in any of the public sort of companies you doing quite well because they've been making massive profits out of selling treatments that aren't particularly needed to us recently josh how do you respond to that it sounds like it's for the pharmaceutical industry and not for health. mostly disagree. but is some of both but keep in mind that i don't represent the pharmaceutical company in fact i was laid off by the farmers out of coal i think mistry serna i have no i have no dog in this fight i'm just speaking from my experiences as a researcher and my impressions following the the history of the last two decades or so and the major accomplishments that we