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2026 Pro Farmer Crop Tour Sampling and Results- What it Means for Yield Estimates
This is part of the Marketing Tips for TAPS series for August 18, 2026, presented by the Center for Agricultural Profitability and the UNL TAPS program. Jeff Peterson, assistant professor of practice in ag economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explains how the Pro Farmer Crop Tour samples soybean fields and how those results compare to USDA's numbers. Scouts measure a three-foot section of row, count every pod longer than a quarter inch, and use that count to estimate yield across the sampled states. In Ohio, USDA's August yield estimate points to a 2% increase from last year, but…
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