| GregWCIL - 1/14/2025 08:53 I thought USDA stopped doing the earlier county yield estimates we’ve had in previous years. I could be wrong on that.
Yes, now there will be nothing but RMA county figures and not published till June.
I've done some comparison between the two "here" and they are definitely not the same, locally in a good growing season they seem to have tracked pretty closely but in the tough growing seasons RMA was considerably lower. I've thought all along that USDA county yields did not account for damage from timber, wildlife, flooded creek bottoms, drowned terraces, etc. when things don't go well. Kinda sucks that a benchmark for later reference is gone but I'm not sure it was a golden one.
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Is their County by county yield estimates?
