Main Street Data Forecasts Bumper Corn Yield in 2020

The U.S. ag market will see record-setting 2020 corn yields of 183 bushels per acre, according to Main Street Data, the ag data science company with the world’s largest and most highly curated data set for yield forecasting.

This forecast is above the 178.5 bushels per acre the USDA has forecast. According to Main Street, the most significant contributing factor to the bumper crop is the optimal weather conditions occurring during the critical silking stage.

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The Main Street forecast is the product of sophisticated data science applied to a data set of more than seven trillion data elements collected over the past 20 plus years. Main Street Data forecasts at the subfield level and aggregates to the county, state and national levels.

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https://www.grainnet.com/article/208414/main-street-data-forecasts-bumper-corn-yield-in-2020

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