Prescient Weather, the creator of CropProphet, also offers a long-range forecast and analysis tool called the World Climate Service. Our company focuses on developing market-leading, scientifically-based climate information services. CropProphet is an excellent example of a climate information application because annual crop yields are dependent on weather conditions over an entire crop season. In other[…]
The mission of CropProphet is to quantify the impact weather has on crop yield and production as objectively as possible. The #1 request for product improvement during 2018 while discussing our mission with customers was to add ECWMF analysis. ECMWF is the weather forecast model from the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts. It[…]
Excessive rainfall has occurred across much of the Plains in the past two weeks, as an extremely stormy weather pattern has prevailed in the central US and the lower Mississippi River valley. More than six inches of rain has fallen in most of central and southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma, with much of this occurring[…]
The heart of the 2019 US Grains season is rapidly approaching as corn and soybean planting finally gets underway in some parts of the Midwest. The CropProphet team has been very busy for many months with preparations for the 2019 season and in this post, we discuss the updates and improvements we are releasing for[…]
We all had to wait a bit because of the government shutdown, but the 2018 Crop Yield and Production results from the USDA NASS are in. We are happy to say that CropProphet performed very well for 2018 as summarized by the table below. Below is a bit more information regarding some of the details[…]
Impact of September Rain on Corn Yields September has begun with heavy precipitation falling in parts of the key corn growing state of Iowa. This has raised concerns on whether this could detrimentally impact corn yield. In order to quantify the potential impacts, we can examine historical CropProphet databases and end of season yields to[…]
Weather and Corn Yield Forecasts – Year over Year GrainBridge has an article discussing if historical corn prices can help to predict future corn prices. In fact, it’s titled “Can Historical Corn Prices help us Predict where Corn Prices will go in the Near Term?“ The article states “A few of the factors driving the[…]
One Minute Summary Throughout July the difference between our “year-to-date” forecast and the impact of the 14-day weather forecast suggested weather was supporting yield development. The last 5 days have seen this difference decrease. It’s likely the biggest increases in yields forecasts have already occurred. However, weather can still impact the final estimates of corn[…]
Causes of Corn Yield Variations There are two primary causes of corn yield per acre variations at the regional level in the United States. This also hold true for soybean yield per acre. They causes of variation are: The Technology Trend – many types of technology is improving yields for both soybeans and corn. The[…]
One Minute Summary Much of the US grain belt experience below normal precipitation in July, 2018 In some important states, such as Illinois, nearly 100% of counties experienced below normal precipitation during July While some locations are definitely being negatively impacted this year, the July precipitation deficit is likely not going to be critical to[…]