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Eating only wheat or only potatoes is not going to be very healthy. Once you have to mix vegetables, yield will suffer dramatically. Also, US yield for wheat i

Eating only wheat or only potatoes is not going to be very healthy. Once you have to mix vegetables, yield will suffer dramatically. Also, US yield for wheat is ~45 bushels per acre, wheat is 60 lbs per bushel, for 2700 lbs. This is 1.3 tons, not 4. And this is done with large scale, high yield processes that do not scale down to an acre. Where did you get 4 tons? https://www.statista.com/statistics/190356/wheat-yield-per-harvested-acre-in-the-us-from-2000/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/190356/wheat-yield-per-h...

ClumsyPilot 6y ago
Uk Gov. Statistics gives 9 tons per hectar, which is like 2.2 acres. Are we measuring different stuff? Surely yield in Uk can't be 3 times higher. As for diet: yield of carrots and many vagetables is usually higher than for wheat, but yes getting any real variery from that hectar would be unrealistic. http://www.farmbusiness.co.uk/business/2019-farm-output-estimates-released-by-defra.html#:~:text=Wheat%3A%20Production%20in%20the%20UK,of%208.3%20tonnes%20per%20hectare http://www.farmbusiness.co.uk/business/2019-farm-output-esti....
- ChrisLomont 6y ago
  A hectare is 2.47 acres, almost an 11% difference from 2.2. Also the 9 was an abnormally high year (I think the highest ever in the UK?). This year is down 40%, which is the worst since the 1980s [0]. >Are we measuring different stuff? Apparently. Also, why use UK numbers to compare to a story on US agriculture, especially without mentioning you switched countries? Can I cite numbers from Congo without noting it? >Surely yield in Uk can't be 3 times higher. Sure it can - variation in wheat production has well over a 50x variation among countries. Not every country has the UK climate, or even the uniformity that the UK has. The climate and rainfall in the UK are very well suited to wheat production. Also, I just posted the values. And here's [1] another place you can look. From this place you can select countries to compare them. The US is ~1/3 the output. The UK has exceptionally high numbers, nearly the highest in the world. Pretty much every source I find is similar. [0] https://www.allaboutfeed.net/Raw-Materials/Articles/2020/8/UK-suffers-worst-wheat-crop-in-40-years-632827E/ https://www.allaboutfeed.net/Raw-Materials/Articles/2020/8/U... [1] https://ourworldindata.org/crop-yields https://ourworldindata.org/crop-yields

ClumsyPilot 6y ago

Uk Gov. Statistics gives 9 tons per hectar, which is like 2.2 acres. Are we measuring different stuff? Surely yield in Uk can't be 3 times higher. As for diet: yield of carrots and many vagetables is usually higher than for wheat, but yes getting any real variery from that hectar would be unrealistic. http://www.farmbusiness.co.uk/business/2019-farm-output-estimates-released-by-defra.html#:~:text=Wheat%3A%20Production%20in%20the%20UK,of%208.3%20tonnes%20per%20hectare http://www.farmbusiness.co.uk/business/2019-farm-output-esti....

ChrisLomont 6y ago
A hectare is 2.47 acres, almost an 11% difference from 2.2. Also the 9 was an abnormally high year (I think the highest ever in the UK?). This year is down 40%, which is the worst since the 1980s [0]. >Are we measuring different stuff? Apparently. Also, why use UK numbers to compare to a story on US agriculture, especially without mentioning you switched countries? Can I cite numbers from Congo without noting it? >Surely yield in Uk can't be 3 times higher. Sure it can - variation in wheat production has well over a 50x variation among countries. Not every country has the UK climate, or even the uniformity that the UK has. The climate and rainfall in the UK are very well suited to wheat production. Also, I just posted the values. And here's [1] another place you can look. From this place you can select countries to compare them. The US is ~1/3 the output. The UK has exceptionally high numbers, nearly the highest in the world. Pretty much every source I find is similar. [0] https://www.allaboutfeed.net/Raw-Materials/Articles/2020/8/UK-suffers-worst-wheat-crop-in-40-years-632827E/ https://www.allaboutfeed.net/Raw-Materials/Articles/2020/8/U... [1] https://ourworldindata.org/crop-yields https://ourworldindata.org/crop-yields