Crop Forecasting Archives - Main Street Data

Use a weather-based forecast model, for the most accurate crop yield forecasts

by Bob McClure | Jul 2, 2020 | Agriculture Technology, Crop Forecasting, Crop Yields

Now is a good time to review yield forecast models for your corn and bean crops It’s nearly the Fourth of July, and along with flag-waving and family picnics comes the mid-summer estimates of corn and bean yields. While the knee-high adage is no longer as accurate as...

Growing season is underway as USDA publishes 2020/21 outlook

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,...

Data Science is More than Just Data and Science. There’s Also the Human Touch.

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...

Historic 2019 Harvest Comes to a Close

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...

Main Street Data Forecast Once Again Presages USDA Soybean and Corn Production Numbers

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...

Main Street Data will attend September 12th NIBA conference as new member.

by Main Street Data | Sep 3, 2019 | AgriBusiness, Agriculture Technology, Commodities, Corn Prices, Crop Forecasting

Main Street Data recently joined the National Introducing Brokers Association (NIBA) and will attend its “Future of Brokerage” conference on September 12th in Chicago. Main Street Data is the agriculture industry’s leading independent technology firm, working at the...