How do you grow 500-bushel corn? Start with 500-bushel stand.The article offers suggestions from Georgia farmer Randy Dowdy, on growing 500-bushel-per-acre corn without crop rotation by protecting crops from diseases, providing nutrients, and use of fungicides....
CHICAGO, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) grains closed mixed on Thursday with corn prices falling sharply as a result of raised U.S. yield estimate. The most active corn contract for December delivery went down 6.75 cents, or 1.94 percent, to 3.415 dollars per bushel. ...
produced almost ten billion bushels of the world’s total 23 billion bushel crop. Corn grown for grain accounts for almost one quarter of the harvested crop acres in this country. Corn grown for silage accounts for about two percent of the total harvested cropland or about 6 million acres. ...
One dropped ear per 100 feet of row or two corn kernels per square foot or equals about 1 bushel per acre yield loss. The bottom line is that the longer corn stays in the field, the greater the likelihood of substantial field losses and complications. Lodging caused by storms can ...
The record high was $7.99 per bushel, reached last June. December corn futures, representing the crop currently in the field, were trading slightly higher Wednesday at $7.73, after closing lower Tuesday on the possibility of rain for the eastern growing region. ...
The most active corn contract for December delivery dropped 15.25 cents weekly, or 4.16 percent, to 3.5175 dollars per bushel. December wheat delivery went up 0.25 cents, or 0.05 percent, to 5.115 dollars per bushel. November soybeans fell 13.5 cents, or 1.6 percent, to 8.305 dollars. ...
For example, a corn producer who has an actual production history (APH) approved yield of 190 bushels per acre, crop insurance price of $4 per bushel, and a coverage level of 70% will result in a revenue guarantee of $532 per acre ($4 × 190 bushels × 0.7). An increased coverage ...
yield:Technology--the availability of better hybrids, nitrogen fertilizer, herbicides, insecticides and other improvements have resulted in a yield increase averaging 1.3 bushel per acre per year since 1950.Preseason precipitation--that which occurred between September 1 and May 15 had a beneficial ...
Corn Yield: Yearly corn yield data in bushel per acre, collected from USDA-NASS47 Data pre-processing Several pre-processing tasks were conducted to ensure the data is prepared for fitting machine learning models. Since it is favorable for some machine learning models especially weighted ensemble ...
Hoyoung Kwon, a coauthor, stated that U.S. corn grain yields improved by 15%, reaching 168 bushels per acre despite fertilizer inputs remaining constant and resulting in a decreased intensity in fertilizer input per bushel of corn harvested: reductions of 7% in nitrogen use and 18% in potash...