One Minute Summary News stories have recently reported negative impacts from excessive rainfall in northwest Iowa June 2018 will be Iowa’s 7th wettest June in the last 40 years CropProphet quantification of the impact of June rainfall in northwest Iowa reveals yield losses of up to -16 bushels/acre locally. But this has relatively little impact[…]
USDA Crop Condition Report and Yield One Minute Summary The season’s first USDA Crop Condition report provides limited but valuable guidance regarding the implications for US corn yields. A good + excellent percent greater than 67 suggests greater than trend yields. Less than 67 suggests less than trend yields. The May 29 Report indicates 79%[…]
The CropProphet crop yield and production forecasting system has been running for just under a month and interesting analyses for Indiana corn yields are already appearing. The deviation from trend corn yield maps show quite a disparity across Indiana. The forecast, as shown from the “Expected Change over the next two weeks” analysis for Indiana[…]