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What do you mean by "corrected for the land area"? According to this study, in the period 2016-2020 wheat yields per acre were more than twice as high in German
by ftrobro 3y ago
What do you mean by "corrected for the land area"? According to this study, in the period 2016-2020 wheat yields per acre were more than twice as high in Germany than in North Dakota or Kansas.
https://ag.purdue.edu/commercialag/home/resource/2022/05/international-benchmarks-for-wheat-production-2/ https://ag.purdue.edu/commercialag/home/resource/2022/05/int...
- bluGill 3y agoNorth Dakota and Kansas are deserts or near desert. Germany gets 2 to 7 times more rain per year (depending on which part of Germany you look at)
- ftrobro 3y agoThat is probably a major reason for the higher yields in Germany, but the person I replied to claimed that yields aren't really higher in Europe than in the US. According to data from the UN, in 2020 North America used 2.77 kg pesticiedes per hectare cropland and Europe used 1.69 kg/ha, and yet Europe has higher yields per hectare. So clearly Europe uses less pesticedes per produced amount of food. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RP https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RP
- cyberax 3y agoI'm sorry, I was a bit unclear. Instead of: > They aren't, when corrected for the land area. I should have said "for the geographical area". You need to compare yields in similar climates and soils.
- ckrapu 3y agoA better comparison would be ND and Ukraine in terms of climate.
- bluGill 3y agoMaybe, but both are large enough and have enough regional variation that it isn't safe to compare like that. The worst regionsare much worse in ND, and the best much better in Ukraine.
- cyberax 3y agoYou need to compare yields for the land in similar climatic conditions. This is complicated, because most of the US is to the south of most of the European landmass. New York is on the same latitude as Madrid.