They've seen variability in corn yields of up to 50 bushels per acre across a single irrigated field. |
Yields of corn have risen from about 30 bushels per acre in 1940 to around 120 bushels per acre today. |
Agronomist Roger Elmore, Ph.D., and his colleagues calculated those losses equal to about 3 bushels per acre. |
They wrote letters and sent circulars, mailing seventeen bushels of material relating to the fair on one day alone. |
New acres coming into production equal more potential bushels, which equal more subsidy dollars. |
The dozen tiny ears he could hold in one hand were worth nearly two bushels of shelled corn. |