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Crop Undercount Raises Questions About Reliability of U.S.D.A. Data

Corn estimates were off by 4.5 million acres last year. A lack of survey responses, not job cuts, led to the miss, the Agriculture Department said.

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Crop Undercount Raises Questions About Reliability of U.S.D.A. DataCorn estimates were off by 4.5 million acres last year. A lack of survey responses, not job cuts, led to the miss, the Agriculture Department said.
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