Go deeper on WASDE day. September WASDE in 12 Charts: the corn, soybean, and wheat balance sheets, decoded, every figure cited. $29, one-off, not a subscription. Not listed yet.
USDA's numbers, decoded into charts you can actually read.
WASDE. Crop Progress. Diesel and drought. Every release charted the day it drops, with a plain so-what under each chart and every figure cited to the government document it came from, so you can check our work. Free, in your inbox on release day.
August 31, 2026
The first brief is out
A grower should not have to guess whether the first brief exists. It does. It is in the public archive, dated August 31, 2026. Subject: The 2026 crop is huge, and running behind last year. Here's the one-minute read. Open it. Check the charts against USDA's own documents. Decide if the so-what is useful.
The next brief is why you subscribe. Free, release days only. Crop Progress Mondays in season, WASDE when it drops.
Coming September 11
September WASDE in 12 Charts
USDA drops the September WASDE on September 11. We chart it the day that release drops, so a grower is not still in the tables while the market has already moved. Same 12-chart format as the free sample.
$29, one-off. Not listed yet. There is no buy button on this page.
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USDA publishes. Noon ET, wall of tables.
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We pull the government's own release text the day it drops and chart the numbers that matter.
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You read the so-what in about 60 seconds and get on with your day.
This is a free sample, built from the already-public August 12, 2026 WASDE, so a grower can judge the format before Sep 11. Open the sample, check it against USDA's own document, and decide if the shape is useful. The sample is the look. It is not for sale.
August 2026 sample Open chart 4 in the August 2026 sample Chart 4 · Corn: Ending Stocks & Stocks-to-UseSource: USDA WASDE (WASDE-674), released 2026-08-12, wasde0826.txt
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