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Farm and the pacific rim countries, they like high-protein wheat, and that's what we raise here. so being the market is low, ever since last year at harvest this time, i sold wheat for $5.70. the market today is $5.82. there used to be up to $1 bonus on protein from 12 protein to 17, there would be a $1 spread. right now there's 5 cents. so we raise a lot of high-protein weeheat, so we're taking about a $2 hit from last year, $2 to $3 hit. and we're about $70 to $75 an acre we're losing by harvesting a little bit above average crop right now. >> so how do you keep going? >> well, older guys li...

And it's right behind me here, yes. we have plenty of water still to recede. although i think that begins in earnest for today and continues over the next several days as pretty much we have crested here. been watching the rain gauges. we've been oscillating anywhere between 5.8 to 5.81 and 5.82. steady as she goes. and then we're going to continue to see these levels drop over the next few days. of course, this began on monday when we had a deluge of rainfall here. as jim rightly pointed out, they've had just incredible amounts of rain. in fact, the likes of which they haven't seen in quite s...

What is it? the fuel supply? the fuel is not able to get in there? is that what has happened? >> we have a monopoly in mcgrath with one fuel vendor here and that's what they are blaming it on, alex. but this hour we have fuel flying into fairbanks, alaska for lower. >> crowley being the owner of the one lone gas station in mcgrath. he says it's because he had to literally fly it in and that was may more expensive than bringing it in on a barge. flying in gas, do you think that warrants an extra 3 bucks a gallon? >> well, absolutely not. $5.82 a gallon right now this hour in mcgrath. we've flow...