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The unexplained suspension of operations of a key Chinese agricultural data provider has left traders, analysts and brokers scrambling for other sources of information on one of the world’s most important farm markets.

The Hernando de Soto Bridge, which links Memphis and eastern Arkansas, could be closed to vehicle traffic for a couple of months. Grain exporters are hoping barge traffic will be able to resume much sooner.

Meteorologist Matt Engelbrecht takes a look at the snowfall map.

A significant fracture on the I-40 bridge is now shut down to not only vehicle traffic, but barges until the issue can be fixed. The emergency shut down is a barrier for barge traffic along the Mississippi River.

Inflation concerns are heating up as fresh data from the Labor Department shows U.S. consumer prices have risen more than 4% over the past year, marking the sharpest increase since 2008.

Farmers are only 30 growing seasons from the biggest challenge agriculture has ever faced—growing 70% more food on the same amount of land they do today.

A U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday La Nina has ended and El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) neutral conditions are likely to continue through the northern hemisphere summer.

Dry weather and poorly timed planting are weighing on Brazil’s second corn crop this year, reviving fears of another surge in feed prices like the one that battered big meatpackers after a 2016 drought.

“We could not have a better way to celebrate our 75th anniversary in North America,” Geraldo Mattioli, SVP North America said in the program announcement.

Wall Street closed lower on Wednesday with the S&P suffering its biggest one-day percentage drop since February, as inflation data fueled concerns over whether interest rate hikes could happen sooner than anticipated.