Centre county Pennsylvania, USA | I think most seasoned bean farmers will file that DuPont story under "wishful thinking".
USDA data shows US soybean yields have been linearly increasing about 0.45 bu/acre/year for more years than most farmers can remember. Projecting that linear increase ahead another 10 years would predict that US soybean yields in 2017 will be 11% greater than US soybean yield in 2007. We (bean farmers) have been told that soybean breeders are working on better genetics and USDA data supports that, but we have no credible reason to believe they will be breaking the 0.45 bu/acre/year linear yield trend anytime in the next 10 years. |
40% increase in soybean yields in 10 years
