Agronomist Roger Elmore, Ph.D., and his colleagues calculated those losses equal to about 3 bushels per acre. |
The wheat harvest this year brought in 310,000 bushels of grain, filling only half the elevator's capacity. |
The dozen tiny ears he could hold in one hand were worth nearly two bushels of shelled corn. |
Divide the total cost of producing each feed fed by the number of tons or bushels produced to arrive at total costs per unit produced. |
They've seen variability in corn yields of up to 50 bushels per acre across a single irrigated field. |
In years with a warm early spring, the experiments have yielded 90 to 100 bushels per acre for soybeans. |