You might think coming to the Midwest, especially our country’s farmland, that everything would get an early start. You know, farmers up at dawn to milk the cows, feed the chickens, slop the hogs and that sort of thing. But instead you find out that some things, like the local news (at least on the network I usually watch), don’t go on the air until 6am on weekdays and don’t even air on weekends (though admittedly I’m so punch drunk all the days are running together anyway).

But…as expected, they DO air the hog futures first thing in the morning.