Main Street Data is looking for record corn yields this year, hitting 183 bushels per acre. That’s above USDA projections, but is credited to the optimal weather conditions during pollination. Vice President of Ag Markets Tim Davis says the Main Street has access to the Machinery Link combine leasing business. “We have the calibrated harvest data from 7 million acres over a seven-year period and that data was collected very meticulously; we feel like we have the largest and most accurate harvest data set in the nation.” In addition to crop forecasting, Main Street Data evaluates soil moisture and the stage of crop development. “We tie that in with 20 years of weather history from IBM. We cross weather history with our yield data for a very accurate forecast.” This system evaluates every county in the nation. The numbers are updated twice a day with each new weather forecast.
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