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Location types include country elevator, ethanol/bio-fuel, export terminal, feedlot, feed mill and direct ship. Use the ‘All’ to option to select all location types. Available commodities covered are corn, soybeans, wheat, hard red wheat and spring wheat. use the ‘All’ option to select all commodity types. Zoom in the map and click on a location to pull up their latest bids and basis.
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Click on the ‘watch’ ‘clock’ icon to view historical time series data for that bid or click on the ‘columns’ icon to launch a chart.
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Cash Bid Prices
Apply the Cash Bid Prices layer to visually make finding the highest (green box) and lowest (red box) bids in the map easier.
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As you the map is zoomed in and out or scrolled side to side the bids coloratoin will update.
Production and Yield Forecasts
The Production and Yield Forecasts layer can plot yield forecasts for county all the way up to national level for different commodities and periods.
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Select a commodity (corn or soybeans), forecast type (yield forecast, area harvested forecast, or production forecast), boundary (US counties, USDA Agricultural Statistics Districts, US states and National) and period (enter in a date or use the date picker to view the historical data as of that date).
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Use the Timeline feature by clicking on the ‘radio button’ to playback the data from the period selected to the most recent datapoint.
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Advanced Crop Factors
Overlay crop factors like Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), Land Surface Temperature(LSTD & LSTN), and station collected weather data, like air temperature(TMAX & TMIN), and accumulated precipitation(PRCP) on a county level.
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cmdtyStats
Apply commodity and fundamental data from various agencies like USDA or EIA directly to the map and use the timeline feature to view the historical data played back.
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Select a year (start date), boundary, commodity, metric, frequency, active stat and then enable the timeline to view the change in that statistic over time.