How Acre Signal works
- 1 The release drops. USDA publishes on its own schedule: WASDE monthly, Crop Progress on Mondays in season. We work off that calendar, not ours.
- 2 We read the primary document. Not the coverage, not somebody's recap. The agency's own release edition, pulled the day it publishes.
- 3 We chart it and write the so-what. Each chart answers one question a grower actually has: sell or store, ahead or behind, tighter or looser than last year.
- 4 You get the chart and the answer under it. One picture, one plain sentence on what changed, and the government document it came from, so you can check our work in the time it takes to read it.
The fine print, up front. Some releases are boring; we say so and show the chart anyway. Every figure cites its source and release date. If we cannot verify a number, it does not appear. There is always variance in this data, and pretending otherwise is how you lose a reader's trust in one issue.
August 2026 sample
Open chart 2 in the August 2026 sample
Chart 2 · Corn: Yield, Year over Year and Month over Month
Source: USDA WASDE (WASDE-674) + NASS Crop Production, released 2026-08-12, wasde0826.txt + https://release.nass.usda.gov/reports/crop0826.txt
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