AgrotechZema Global will carry SatYield's satellite-based, in-season yield, production and acreage estimates for the US and Brazil, giving commodity traders an independent read on crops before official figures.
The October estimate of 188 bushels an acre for Nebraska drove much of the national increase and a 5% fall in corn futures; analysts want NASS to explain why irrigated fields were only 10% of the September sample.
AgribusinessKalshi added a commodities tab in April and briefly listed corn, soybean, wheat and cattle contracts; a Farm Bureau economist and the University of Illinois's Scott Irwin weigh the promise for small farms against unsettled regulation.
