National Ag News

Opinions vary about the value of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) crop condition ratings released weekly by the agency.  AgriVisor market analyst Dale Durchholz questions the accuracy of the crop ratings.  He tells Brownfield subjectivity in determining the ratings leaves room for error.

“We had low crop condition ratings, or relatively low crop condition ratings, and then came out with a yield when NASS started to do their official crop reports themselves that was a lot higher than what the condition ratings had implied,” said Durchholz, at a USDA Data Users meeting in Kansas City Tuesday.

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