Notes today: 

• Salesforce offers to relocate thousands employees and their families from Texas if they’re concerned about the ability to seek reproductive care..

• A new U.S. government study found unvaccinated people are 11 times more likely to die of Covid-19 as the delta variant continues to kill thousands of them daily while also triggering so-called breakthrough cases among the vaccinated. 

• A Florida appeals court said Friday that  Ron DeSantis’s ban on school mask mandates can be enforced for now – 

• Bloomberg: Almost "all" the top Wall Street banks have come out this week with a nervous message “a storm is brewing” in the U.S. stock market.  (I find “ALL” a bit encouraging)

• Bloomberg: The Biden administration is weighing a new investigation into Chinese subsidies and their damage to the U.S. economy as a way to pressure Beijing on trade – (further frosty China relations). 

• Corn: USDA's September Crop Production report showed a yield of 176.3 bu. per acre, which is 1.7 bu. per acre higher than the August report, and 4.3 bu. per acre above last year’s crop. 

• Soybeans:  The report forecast soybean production to increase 1% from the August forecast, at 4.37 billion bushels. That’s 6% higher than last year’s final production number. 

• The biggest production increase by USDA Friday came to cotton. USDA adjusted its all cotton production forecast 7% higher, now at 18.4 million, 480-pound bales.  

• Bloomberg: Apple was ordered by a federal judge to allow app developers to steer consumers to alternative payment methods. The ruling for plaintiff Epic Games may shrink a key revenue stream for the world’s most valuable company, which faces a range of antitrust suits. Analysts estimate Apple’s App Store takes in more than $20 billion a year with a profit margin above 75%. Apple is expected to appeal.