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CORN ON THE RUN

Corn is feeling the heat from climate change, with yields dropping close to 4 percent due to weather-related factors between 1980 and 2008. Credit: Images courtesy of Science/AAAS

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  • My first impulse is to say BS! in 1980 the yeilds people acually got on corn around here was 125 bu/acre. now it is in the 200-250 bu/acre range with less irrigation. I read the source article and their claim is that yeilds would have grown 3.8% more without global warming so our 100% increase would have been 103.8%. Looks more like conjecture than science to me.
    mark branstine mark branstine
    Jun. 20, 2011 at 10:49am
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