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 Bob McClure | Aug 19, 2019 | AgriBusiness, Agriculture Technology, Commodities, Corn, Corn Prices, Crop Forecasting, Crop Yields, Flooding
Main Street Data is now forecasting that 1.9M acres of harvested corn will be lost to this historic 2019 flood year (compared to the July projections). Our Progressive WeatherYield product uses satellite images, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to...
by Bob McClure | Jul 9, 2019 | Agriculture Technology, Corn, Flooding, Soybeans
Notes From the Field: Wednesday morning, June 19 — in the overwhelming flood year of 2019. Two colleagues and I are driving, northbound, from KC to Omaha on the recently-submerged Interstate 29 due to this historic flood year. Feeling quite a bit more like the Florida...
by Ken Cassman | Jul 1, 2019 | Corn, Crop Forecasting, Flooding, Nitrogen
Fertilizer is essential for successful crops; the nitrogen in fertilizer is a basic building block of plant growth and yield.The critical importance of nitrogenSince development of the Haber-Bosch process in 1914, increased use of nitrogen fertilizer has contributed...
