Source: Chris Clayton, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 5/10/18


The chairman of USDA's World Agricultural Outlook Board -- the group that produces the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) -- fired back this week at a report by an agricultural software and satellite firm challenging USDA's data collection methodology that produces the monthly WASDE. Gro Intelligence, which describes itself as having "developed the world's most extensive agriculture data platform," issued a report Wednesday calling USDA's WASDE "outdated," and referring to it as an "analogue tool for a digital age." 

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