SE MN Still in Pothole Country | If you have a 1000 acre FSA farm and planted 500 acres to corn and 500 acres to soybean each year it is pretty simple. Actually the question is not how to arrive at the average yield in any one year. You may get different numbers if you add all corn bushels produced in 2008-2012 and then divide that number by all acres grown in 2008-2012 compared to averaging the average yields for each year from 2008-2012.
For instance one year you only plant 100 acres of corn and 900 acres of soybeans. If grow 250 bpa corn on that 100 acres it would give you a 250 to average with 4 years of 175 bpa if you simply take the average of 2008-2012 yields. That average of yearly yields would give you a 190. If you take total bushels 2008-2012 and divide by total acres 2008-2012 you would have 183.33. What if you had 50 acres of soybeans one year and you got hailed down to 10 bpa? That could skew you to the downside. Could work either way.
Or can it be done either way?
Edited by cornerpost 1/26/2015 12:16
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Updating Yields Again--Multiple RMA farms in One FSA Farm Number
