USDA maintains productivity forecast for the 2025 corn crop year

consensus of information, and some continued to suggest that this year’s US productivity would be much lower than indicated in the August and September reports. Cuts below 180 bushels/acre were suggested. The Department did not follow the market, maintaining high productivity and a huge US crop. On the other hand, demand projections remained quite high, including super exports in this 2025/26 business year. Now, the market is focused on 2026, the consequences of the trade agreement, and the confirmation of the USDA’s strong demand projections. It is always quite difficult for the Department of Agriculture to change its crop research methodology and/or ignore the production records being made by its growers in the government system. This is in a very comfortable situation, that is, there were no unfavorable weather conditions that could reverse the field research registered in August and September. Some private companies have modified their productivity research methods, including ...