The USDA NASS provides data regarding historical winter wheat (among many other crops) planted and harvest acres, yield, and production. CropProphet uses weather information to forecast yield and production for corn, soybeans, and winter wheat. The information presented here documents the top 11 winter wheat producing states each year from 2019 back to 2000. Winter[…]
The United States is one of the largest producers of soybeans in the world. The 2019 #1 producing soybean US state was Illinois. Does Illinois have the highest soybean yield in the country? As seen in the graph showing the 2019 state soybean per acre for each state, Illinois was ranked third producing soybeans with[…]
Introduction The risk of corn yield forecast declines occurring during the remainder of July 2020 is analyzed using a weather scenario approach. Recent long-range forecasts created by the World Climate Service, a separate product of Prescient Weather, show increased probabilities of above-normal temperature and below normal precipitation across the U.S. Corn Belt for the remainder[…]
Monitoring Corn Belt Weather Forecasts CropProphet produces grain yield and production forecasts based on an advanced weather-driven model. It quantifies the impact of weather and weather forecasts on county, state, and national grain production using both “crop season-to-date” weather conditions and weather forecasts. An important aspect of CropProphet is the use of weather forecast information[…]
Midwest Heat Wave Forecast Update We recently posted information about the probability of a Midwestern US Heat Wave in July 2020 from our related product, the World Climate Service. Since the ECMWF “extended forecast” was released yesterday, this post updates the forecast as of July 7th, 2020. On June 29, 2020, we wrote a post[…]
US Soybean Production by State: Ranking the Top 11 In 2019 Illinois produced 532 million bushels of soybeans, making it the number one producer of soybeans in the United States. The primary cause of year-to-year variation in soybean production by state are year-to-year variations in: The number of acres planted by producers to grow soybeans,[…]
CropProphet, which provides weather-based forecasts of grain yield and production, is created by Prescient Weather. We have a second product, called the World Climate Service (WCS), which is designed to support energy and commodity meteorologists and grain traders as they seek to improve not only their long-range forecasting process but also the communication of weather-related[…]
US Corn Production by State: The Top 10 The primary cause of year-to-year variation in corn production by state is: The number of acres planted by producers to grow corn. In some states, many million acres of land are planted with corn resulting in billions of bushels of corn production. The weather conditions that occur[…]
What is ag weather? Ag weather, short for “agriculture weather” is the term used to comprehensively indicate the impact weather has on the agriculture industry and the information used to make decisions to manage those impacts. The use of ag weather information in agriculture has many applications. For example: An agricultural producer will look at[…]
Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture There are many possible applications of artificial intelligence in agriculture. Quite a bit has been written about the topic and much of it focuses on precision agriculture applications. Artificial intelligence in agriculture is being applied to monitor crops, plant pests, identify damaging conditions via computer vision to detect disease, and many[…]