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Completed

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October 12, 2026 at 10:17 PM

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October 12, 2026 at 10:17 PM

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1 minute

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Farmers Question WASDE Yield Jump as Corn Prices Fall

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  "transcript": "Thanks for watching two top stories today. First, more diesel is coming to American gas stations, but some critics say it could be illegal. The pushback on President Trump's deal with Russia. And second, farmers are questioning Friday's WASDE report. The added bushels in the corn yield estimate and the loss it adds up to. Thanks for joining us. I'm Tine Morgan. Haley is off today. We're shooting from some Missouri cornfields where harvest is in full swing. Now these farmers are worried about the money lost after the changes in the October WASDE report. We're talking to economists to track down where the change came from. I can accept that Nebraska, you know, would go up. The question farmers are asking is why? From the September WASDE to the October WASDE, Nebraska corn yield went up 11 bushels per acre. Nationwide corn yield jumped nearly three bushels to 181.2 bushels per acre. When you are not getting your full sample, there's a bigger chance of error. Seth Meyer, USDA's former chief economist, says there are at least two things that contributed to this rise. One is the change in how USDA gathers data from September to October. So you're in this period where you're transitioning from pure field level without harvest for a maturing crop into a combination of that and farmers' actual results. The second is where USDA got its September results from. In September, 90% of the fields that it sampled were not irrigated in Nebraska. Only 10% were irrigated. In October, that went up to 55% irrigated yields and 44% non-irrigated. And Meyer says this suggests some geographic areas were not looked at in September. The question then becomes, was there a geographic region? I know we had some rainfall, but that was very late in September, not when this yield would have occurred. Is there some geographic region where there is an issue in actually getting into those irrigated fields? I think that's a that's a legitimate question. I expect NASS will answer that. Matt Bennett with AgMarket.net says the numbers have to be believed once they hit the market. The number that's printed is the number that the algorithms trade. It clearly changes the trajectory of everything that we've thought for some time. One Missouri farmer telling me this move cost him about $40 per acre. So let's put that into perspective. If a farmer had 2,000 acres that weren't priced yet, that one report cost them $80,000.",
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