date:Oct 24, 2012
An ever-earlier corn harvest is causing headaches for grains analysts and statisticians. At an industry conference in Chicago, analysts pepper USDA officials with questions about how they account for grain that is harvested before the start of the USDA's marketing year Sept 1.
Counting it as part of the old crop could skew reporting on the size of the following year's crop. It's a difficult problem, and we're still working on it, and we're not happy with the end result yet, a USDA official say