DC Signal to Noise: Will Hot/Dry Weather This Week Affect Accuracy of Upcoming S&D Report?

AgriTalk's Chip Flory and Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer recap the hot topics last week and a look ahead to what to watch this week. Watch the video above or listen to the podcast below for discussion on these topics and more: 

> Concern over the hot temperatures and lack of rain, and how the S&D report coming out later this week may or may not have that factored in.

> The continuing cyber warfare situation

> PORK Week

> A possible worker strike at the Smithfield plant in South Dakota and more.

 

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