date:Nov 13, 2012
forecast three times. The deviation ranged from 0.1 to 0.8 bushels.
History does not provide much guidance for forming expectations this year. For corn, the pattern of yield forecasts this year, lower in September and October and higher in November was experienced only two other times. The January yield estimate equaled the November forecast in one of those years and exceeded the November forecast by 0.7 bushels in the other. Again, history provides little guidance for forming January yiel