Ag Risk Intelligence
This is How Data Science Transforms Risk Assessment and Management
PREPLANTING RADAR
Preplanting Radar is a unique tool that provides a risk window into the upcoming growing season – allowing insurers, reinsurers, and lenders to identify and assess risk at county and sub-county geo levels and make more informed underwriting decisions.
PROGRESSIVE WEATHERYIELD
Progressive WeatherYield provides an In-Season Forecast at a frequency up to 2X daily for insurance companies to optimize the accuracy and timeliness of loss reserves for financial reporting.
GROWINGSCORE
GrowingScore normalizes uncontrollable external factors to reveal the true performance of growers – providing insurers, re-insurers, and lenders with better underwriting via a superior picture of growing effectiveness.
Ag Business Intelligence
This is How Big Data Transforms Yield Forecasting
PROGRESSIVE WEATHERYIELD
Highly accurate county / state / national yield forecasts. See changes in corn and soybean commodity supply earlier and more accurately with Progressive WeatherYield, to understand production well ahead of the market.
WEATHERYIELDTM
Highly accurate, hyper-local yield forecast centered on the geography you choose. Dramatically improve your knowledge of the corn and soybean supply in your draw territory with WeatherYield.
MARKETVISION
Corn and soybean farmers and crop marketers can level the playing field with the data science and real-time decision support of our MarketVision crop marketing tool. Know now where your production stands, review production forecasts, and understand when to sell with MarketVision.
VALIDATOR
Farmers and agronomists can benchmark performance, normalizing for weather and other factors. Validate your strategy and monitor your effectiveness at the management-zone level. See what’s working and what’s not working, so you can make informed decisions going forward.
Ag Management & Grain Marketing
This is How Data Analysis Transforms Farm Management and Sell/Hold Decisions
WEATHERYIELDTM
Highly accurate, hyper-local yield forecast centered on the geography you choose – and received within hours of selection. Dramatically improve your knowledge of the corn and soybean supply in your territory with WeatherYield.
MARKETVISION
Corn and soybean farmers and crop marketers can level the playing field with the data science and real-time decision support of our MarketVision crop marketing tool. Know now where your production stands, understand when to sell, and stay ahead of the curve with MarketVision.
VALIDATOR
Farmers and agronomists can benchmark performance, normalizing for weather and other factors. Validate your strategy and monitor your effectiveness at the management-zone level. See what’s working and what’s not working, so you can make informed decisions going forward.
Ag Insights
Knowing Better Means Knowing Sooner
Data Science is More than Just Data and Science. There’s Also the Human Touch.
While data science informs, human intelligence transforms. Main Street Data combines data science with human insights, for intelligence that goes beyond information. MSD's experts offer powerful wisdom that does more than inform decisions: it’s transforming the ag...
Final USDA Report Agrees With MSD’s Soybean Yield Forecast
Three months ago, Main Street Data forecast final USDA soybean yield.In addition to matching Main Street Data’s Progressive WeatherYield corn yield and harvested acres forecast, the final USDA report matches the soybean yield MSD forecast months ago.Progressive...
Final USDA Report Matches MSD Corn Yield & Harvested Acres Forecast
Main Street Data foretold final USDA corn yield and harvested acres – 5 months ago. Today was a big day for U.S. crop data, especially corn yield and harvested acres. The final numbers for the 2019 harvest – one of the most difficult in decades – were issued by the...
Historic 2019 Harvest Comes to a Close
Progressive WeatherYield Forecast Many of the 2019 Harvest Big Moments2019 ended as a run-of-the-mill harvest for corn in terms of area harvested, with 81.8 million acres in 2019 versus 81.7 million in 2018. While it’s a bit anticlimactic for such a tumultuous year to...
The Truth About Crop Yield Gains
How fast have crop yields been rising?Since the mid-1960s, average U.S. crop yields have been increasing. Corn yields have been increasing steadily at about 1.9 bu/ac per year. Soybean yields have increased as well, at about one third that rate. The slower rate of...
Tariffs, Floods, and Ethanol. It’s been one heck of a grain season.
With the recent delay of the mid-October 30% tariff increase, and the agreement by China to purchase more agricultural goods from the U.S., the heat of tariff concerns seems to have waned right along with the summer sun. Ironically, it was trade talks that actually...
Industry Startup, Bringing Human Intelligence to Data Science in the Ag Space
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