Posted 5/11/2014 00:57 (#3863079 - in reply to #3862979) Subject: RE: USDA's 2015 first yield estimate
Middle Tennessee
The USDA's statistical methods--whatever they are--may be trying to express just that possibility.
A less sophisticated analysis: The average yield from 1891's numbers is 150. There's a deviation of 16. That gross treatment suggest 30% chance or so of hitting the USDA yield numbers. 170 would be 1.5 deviations, what's that 10% probability or less?