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The Biden Administration is now projecting inflation to rise by 4.8% in the Q4 of 2021, up from the 2% forecasted in May, and inflation is already starting to slow growth in the U.S. dairy herd.

Widespread flooding from Hurricane Ida and power outages on Tuesday slowed efforts by energy companies to assess damages at oil production facilities, ports and refineries.

Farmer beware: The future impact of herbicide-resistant weeds is a question within a greater Pandora’s Box.

Hurricane Ida hammered southeast Louisiana, as the Category 4 storm came with 150 mph winds. And as the system moves across the U.S., meteorologist Mike Hoffman says some areas could experience significant rainfall.

The largest U.S. producer of glyphosate is offline due to the impacts of Hurricane Ida. Bayer confirmed its Luling, La., site was offline as of Monday. However, the duration of the pause in production is still unknown.

The full impact from Hurricane Ida is still unknown. The uncertainty was partially to blame for a major market sell-off Monday with September soybeans closing 54 cents lower and September corn down nearly 18 cents.

Hurricane Ida packed a punch of 150 mph winds this weekend, crippling grain shipping facilities in a key export area along the lower Mississippi River. Now it’s a question of how long export activity could be shuttered.

The National Weather Service shows isolated areas of Iowa saw more than 20 inches of rain during the month of August. But with much of the summer and month being dry for northeast Iowa, the change was a sudden switch.

AgriTalk’s Chip Flory and Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer discuss the status of the WOTUS redo, trade, renewable diesel, Afghanistan and a lot more on this week’s D.C. Signal to Noise.

USDA is out with its new ag export forecast for both this year and next, and it’s showing exports could hit $173.5 billion in 2021, $4 billion more than 2020, due to higher livestock, poultry and dairy exports.