Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The US is the world's largest producer of corn. [8] According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average U.S. yield for corn was 177 bushels per acre, up 3.3 percent over 2020 and a record high, with 16 states posting state records in output, and Iowa reporting a record of 205 bushels of corn per acre.
In agriculture, the yield is a measurement of the amount of a crop grown, or product such as wool, meat or milk produced, per unit area of land. The seed ratio is another way of calculating yields. Innovations, such as the use of fertilizer, the creation of better farming tools, new methods of farming and improved crop varieties, have improved ...
The following are international Maize (corn) production statistics come from the Food and Agriculture Organization figures from FAOSTAT statics The quantities of corn (maize, Zea mays) in the following table are in million metric tonnes (m STs, m LTs). All countries with a typical production quantity of at least 10 million t (11 million short ...
The Pro Farmer Crop Tour found ideal growing conditions could supercharge Iowa's corn yield
A combine loads soybeans into a grain truck in rural Blair, Neb., Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) Some good news for farmers who have battled flooding and rain so much of this ...
Corn field in Liechtenstein. Corn stover consists of the leaves, stalks, and cobs of corn (maize) (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) plants left in a field after harvest. Such stover makes up about half of the yield of a corn crop [1] and is similar to straw from other cereal grasses; in Britain it is sometimes called corn straw. Corn stover is a very ...
FINDLAY, Ill. (WCIA) — Troy Uphoff of Findlay has great soil and he knows how to grow high-yield corn. His plot was entered into a nationwide contest hosted by the National Corn Growers ...
Those of economic importance include diseases of the leaf, smuts such as corn smut, ear rots and stalk rots. [85] Northern corn leaf blight damages maize throughout its range, whereas banded leaf and sheath blight is a problem in Asia. [86] [87] Some fungal diseases of maize produce potentially dangerous mycotoxins such as aflatoxin. [60]