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Business & Inputs

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The Midwest stays wet a bit longer, as we watch for possible additional New World Screwworm cases in the U.S. The June WASDE report hits Thursday.

World & Policy

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Oil prices fell for a second day in a row Friday on lingering hopes for a diplomatic breakthrough to the U.S.-Iran war and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to energy shipments.

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Farm Life

View From the Cab farmer Chris Weaver had a shadow in the field helping him this week. Daughter, Mackenzie, 12, looks over a growing soybean crop on their farm near Finksburg, Maryland. (Photo courtesy of Chris Weaver)
Posted by Pamela Smith

This week DTN's View From the Cab farmers are busy working around the weather to get a variety of operations complete.

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What DTN Is Watching

On Friday at 7:30 a.m. CDT, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the monthly Employment report with jobs and wage data for May. At 2:30 p.m. CDT, CFTC will update trader positions as of Tuesday, June 2, in the weekly Commitments of Traders report.

Weather

A front is getting dragged into the Midwest on Friday. Showers and thunderstorms continue from northern Missouri into Wisconsin Friday morning while more will develop across the region through the afternoon and especially in the evening around southern Iowa. Though some severe weather will be possible, heavy rain may produce flooding from southeast Nebraska into northern Illinois. Other more limited showers are forecast across the Plains.

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