21. The department issues its next crop forecast May 12. 22. Brazil will release its first coffee crop forecast in seven years by Jan . 15. 23. The USDA will publish a revised crop forecast on Friday, though analysts expect little change. 24. Abecitrus will issue a revised crop forecast on Friday. 25. Wheat sank despite a reduction in Australia's crop forecast . 26. There were no crop estimates, just crop forecasts , which are necessarily less accurate and less reliable. 27. The drop was the largest month-to-month change since the USDA began compiling crop forecasts in 1960. 28. On television, they learn that Beeks is transporting a secret USDA report on orange crop forecasts . 29. The Cotton Council's projections precede by several weeks the first 1997-98 crop forecasts from the USDA. 30. The orange crop forecast is for 229 million 90-pound boxes, the same amount as last month.