by Bob McClure | Jan 10, 2020 | AgriBusiness, Agriculture Technology, Commodities, Crop Yields
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...
by Bob McClure | Dec 19, 2019 | AgriBusiness, Agriculture Technology, Commodities, Corn, Crop Forecasting, Crop Yields
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...
by Main Street Data | Nov 12, 2019 | AgriBusiness, Commodities
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...
by Bob McClure | Oct 11, 2019 | AgriBusiness, Agriculture Technology, Commodities, Crop Forecasting, Soybeans
Once again, the USDA Crop Production report has tracked toward the soybean and corn numbers that Main Street Data has had in place for weeks.USDA soybean production numbers are now very close to PWY numbersThe USDA has adjusted soybean production numbers in...
by Ken Cassman | Oct 3, 2019 | AgriBusiness, Commodities, Corn, Flooding, Nitrogen
Now termed the Great Flood of 1993, the flooding that occurred along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in April and May of that year was epic. Covering nine states and 400,000 square miles, it was the most costly natural disaster ever in the U.S. at the time,...
by Ken Cassman | Sep 17, 2019 | AgriBusiness, Agriculture Technology, Commodities, Corn, Crop Yields, Nitrogen
Corn production is a topic on everyone’s mind these days, and the big question is: when will the first freeze put an end to the 2019 growing season? The map below shows the first freeze possible in the Upper Midwest on September 29, which is later than the 30-year...
