This is a series of cb-s I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. To the south of France to

paradise in the beautiful September weather.

Simon Constable reporting for the Wall Street Journal and Parents and

and other distinguished publications is going to guide his first to why people

live in the South of France and then also about the world economy right now looking at the

US doing well Europe envious of the US doing well and China non-transparent but grim.

Simon, a very good day to you.

First, your climate and then we'll speak of commodities.

It is supposed to be perfect weather.

It certainly has been in southern New England blue skies

80s in the afternoon 50s 40s in the morning no rain everything perfect. How does it look in your part of the world?

Good evening.

Apparently you've stolen our weather as well.

No, we have exactly the same weather.

So it was coming up in the high 40s in the morning when I woke up and now it's in the low 70s.

It's sunny, the sky is blue, it's not raining, there's a very little wind it's almost perfect weather I can't actually think

about how it would get much better for the son of the year it's very very nice and the

good weather the the crops, the sunflower fields, are they being harvested yet?

I haven't seen them being harvested yet, but I have seen a lot of fields being furrowed ready for new planting of things like corn and

certainly not corn of wheat, winter wheat and things like that. So that's happening and certainly the

cows are being moved around for another round of maybe carving in a few months ahead of us.

So we'll see what's going on there, but there's always a lot of activity with what the farmers are doing. I haven't seen a full, I guess a crop or harvest coming in in the last couple of weeks, but I'm sure we will in a few more weeks.

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