This projected yield has been pushed down to 146 bushels per acre as of mid-July.
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Still, there are entire bushels of low-hanging fruit here, many identified by my TPC colleagues.
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Last year, for example, he produced 35 bushels per acre, far below the 150 bushel goal.
To secure repayment, Husband, Wife and Tanglewood gave the Lender a security interest in 113, 208 corn bushels.
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The 13.2 billion gallons of ethanol mandated by the law will require 4.7 billion bushels of corn.
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By March 1988, the government owned a vast 1.8 billion bushels of corn (maize), roughly a year's supply.
Last year biopharmed corn that was synthesizing a vaccine to prevent diarrhea in pigs contaminated 500, 000 bushels of soybeans.
The June 9 USDA report increased its estimate of 2010-2011 U.S. ending stocks from 0.991 to 1.093 billion bushels.
Back in 1988, when the last drought caused a price spike, silos held 4.8 billion bushels, or six years' worth.
Now they hold a mere 1.6 billion bushels, and Haugerud says nearly half will be drawn down to meet demand.
These scales are usually found in commodities measured in bushels, tons or barrels, not highly specialized exquisitely manufactured products like an app.
West moves 25 workers from wheat farming into bike making, where its comparative advantage lies, and produces 75 bikes and 25 bushels.
Meanwhile, a U.S. Department of Agriculture report last week said corn stocks were below 1 billion bushels for the first time since 2004.
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Suppose that East specialises in wheat growing, shifting ten workers from its bicycle factories to its fields, and producing 240 bushels and 80 bikes.
Eventually, it came out that the bushels of corn had been sold by Husband without the proceeds going to the Lender, who was left unsecured.
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The MDA EarthSat crop tour estimated a corn yield of a 118 bushels per acre after surveying 49 fields in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
Also, the improvement in corn productivity led to per acre production of 91 bushels in 1980 to climb to almost 165 bushels per acre in 2009.
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Knowing what a field looked like, day by day, during a year when it produced 180 bushels per acre or 20% less than that, gives the software a reference point.
Can Gottsch wrangle even more carriage for his rural channel with cable and satellite operators, and raise the bushels of seed money it'll take to launch operations elsewhere?
As a board member, better to let the bushels of shareholder lawsuits challenging FWPP wind their way laboriously through the courts and let outsiders tend to the dirty-work.
This year, he got his crop into the ground by late April, but dry conditions are now causing damage and reducing the number bushels his fields will produce.
About 35% of the estimated 4.6 billion bushels of all U.S. corn grown this year will be consumed by the ethanol industry, producing nearly 14 billion gallons of alcohol.
In the early 20th century, Delaware Bay produced more than a million bushels of oysters a year, but began tapering off in the 1930s and was down to 49, 000 in 1960.
As a result of the ongoing drought, the USDA has lowered its estimate of the 2012 U.S. corn harvest by a staggering 27 percent from their June figures (about 4 billion bushels).
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If East is going to import bikes, it will pay no more than two bushels in return (faced with a higher price, it would be better off moving workers back to the bike factory).
The USDA said Wednesday the U.S. supply of soybeans will decline by Aug. 31 to 140 million bushels, a reserve equal to 4.2% of annual consumption, which would be the tightest level in about three decades.
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