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.
On yields pest resistant corn showed big differences in yield advantage - five times higher in the Prairie states than in the main crop-growing states.
U.S. farmers paid more for high quality Genuity reduced refuge corn and Roundup ready 2 yield soybean seeds as global food prices hit historic highs.
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Like the pork and beef industries, in the early spring of 2012, the chicken industry believed this summer would yield a bumper corn harvest, and so it upped production levels to utilize this large crop.
For example, the Amazon pupunha-a is a fruit that can yield twice as much starch as Iowa corn, and the Amazonian babassu palm gives the world's highest yield of vegetable oil.
Corn prices soared 34 percent after USDA slashed its yield projection 12 percent over a previous estimate.
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Corn is indeed a renewable resource, but it has a far lower yield relative to the energy used to produce it than either biodiesel (such as soybean oil) or ethanol from other plants.
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Since mid-June, corn prices have risen about 60%, more than twice the projected decline in yield.
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In the No. 1 corn and soy state of Iowa on Friday, scouts estimated the state's yield at 146 bpa, down 16 percent from the average of 174.7 bpa in the same areas of the state last year.
The explained variance of this residual yield by climate is generally about 50%, which is very close to the average I found for corn, soybeans, and winter wheat.
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