Trends and Variability in U.S. Corn Yields Over the Twentieth Century

By Christopher J. Kucharik, Navin Ramankutty. 2005

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science

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• The benefits of pesticides to mankind and the environment (2007, background): “Corn yields in the USA went from 30 bushels per acre to over a hundred per acre over the period from 1920 to 1980 (Kucharik and Ramankutty, 2005).”
• A reassessment of global bioenergy potential in 2050 (2015, background): “…growth of cereals (the bulk of most people’s diet) in t ha 1 yr 1 has been slowing as we have already picked the low-hanging fruit of yield increase (Kucharik & Ramankutty, 2005; Brisson et al., 2010; Finger, 2010; Lin & Huybers, 2012) – we have exhausted conventional breeding techniques and have…”