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Heat moves in and likely will linger in some places, the Fed raises interest rates three quarters of a percent and the markets get a three day weekend. Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management discuss how the markets are handling all of that and what may be on the horizon in the June 30 acreage report on this week's Agweek Market Wrap, sponsored by Gateway Building Systems.

This week on AgweekTV, we'll get "boots on the ground" to check planting progress. Effects on the cattle industry from the April 12 blizzard are still going on. We'll continue our Follow a Farmer series with a look at potato planting. And, a prominent North Dakota potato farming family sells land to a trust linked to Bill Gates, one of the world's richest men.

The June WASDE was generally neutral wheat, negative corn and friendly to soybeans, Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management told Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network on the Agweek Market Wrap. With that out of the way and the USDA's acreage report still a few weeks out, all attention turns to the weather.

With planting dates near or already over for some crops in the northern Plains, all eyes will be on the forecast over Memorial Day weekend, according to this week's conversation on the Agweek Market Wrap between Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management and Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network.

The markets — and the wheat markets in particular — started off on fire this week, said Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network. But as he and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management discussed on this week's Agweek Market Wrap, sponsored by Gateway Building Systems, most of the gains were lost by the end of the week.