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maybe 50 if he's lucky. In good years, he'd get well more than 100.
• His 800 acres of still-developing soybeans desperately could use the tropical storm's help.
• "We're dry as a bean. If we don't get rain, the bean crop will fall flat on its face," he said as Missouri's crops as a whole languished. The USDA, in its Monday update, said a whopping 85 percent of the state's corn crop was poor or very poor, while 78 percent of Missouri soybeans were listed as equally bad.
• Near Mechanicsburg in central Illinois, Kenneth Metcalf is making plans to start harvesting the nearly 600 acres of corn he's growing with his son, provided Isaac doesn't blow it down.
• "I don't want the wind," said Metcalf, 75. "This corn is not at all that stable to start

with, and we don't need 50- or 60-mile-per-hour winds. It would just break the stalks off, and it'd be a hell of a mess."
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• KYLE, S.D. (AP) -- The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota is getting its first credit union.
• The National Credit Union Administration has announced that it has approved the charter for Lakota Federal Credit Union. The low-income designation credit union is expected to open in November to serve the approximately 40,000 people on the reservation.
• NCUA Board Chairman Debbie Matz says the new credit union will help Native Americans living on the reservation have access to affordable financial services that every American deserves.
• The credit union will offer a variety of financial services to the reservation's residents, including unsecured and share secured loans, auto loans, money orders, direct deposits, wire transfers and check cashing.
• Lakota Federal Credit Union is sponsored by the nonprofit organization Lakota Funds.
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