Coming back to the MIDAS strawman briefly, I just want to emphasize one thing I learned in the 1985-87 time period: the initial planning for the System/36 processes and data slighted the importance of the year. It was easy to do: most interactions with a farmer at the county office you know which year you're dealing with--it's the current crop or program year. And because it's just a matter of assumptions, it's a fact which often got lost in our modeling, planning, and system design.
Very briefly, it looks to me as if MIDAS might be making the same error. I hope not.
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