by Main Street Data | May 12, 2020 | AgriBusiness, Commodities, Corn, Crop Forecasting, Soybeans
Conditions are favorable for the 20/21 growing season, with higher-than-average plantings for both corn and soybeans.Today is a big day for U.S. crop data and the upcoming growing season as the USDA publishes the 2020/21 outlook for corn and soybeans. Conditions have,...
by Main Street Data | Apr 9, 2020 | AgriBusiness, Commodities, Corn, Ethanol
On April 9, the WASDE corn ethanol forecast was lowered by an astonishing 375 million bushels to 5.050 billion. This extraordinary drop is attributed to a worldwide decline in ethanol production and gasoline consumption due to coronavirus disruption. This lower...
by Main Street Data | Feb 19, 2020 | AgriBusiness, Agriculture Technology, Corn, Crop Forecasting
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...
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 Ken Cassman | Nov 26, 2019 | AgriBusiness, Corn, Crop Yields, Nitrogen, Soybeans
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...
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,...
