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Earth orbiting satellites make it possible to continuously monitor the world's food supplies.
Sophisticated computer models using data from these satellites can accurately forecast local yields and worldwide production weeks before harvest. It contains a subsystem which integrates crop condition assessments for evaluating yield factors, such as pests, technological changes, etc., not evaluated in the physiological model process. Daily, weekly, and monthly reports are faxed to all clients. Forecast accuracies exceed 97 percent and are available weeks before government statistics.