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Here is a farmdoc article looking at wheat yields around the world with typical farms and the corresponding yields.
https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2018/07/international-benchmarks-for-wheat-production.html
The sample of farms used in this paper was comprised of ten typical farms from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and United States. The farm and country abbreviations used in this paper are listed in table 1. Typical farms used in the agri benchmark network are defined using country initials and hectares on the farm. It is important to note that wheat enterprise data is collected from other countries. These seven countries represented in table 1 were selected to simplify the illustration of costs and discussion. There are three U.S. farms with wheat in the network. The U.S. farms used to illustrate wheat production in this paper is the western Kansas farm (US2025KS) and the southern Indiana farm (US1215INS).
All of the typical farms listed in table 1 produced multiple crops. The Argentine farm produced soybeans, corn, sunflowers, and winter wheat. The Australian farm produced barley, fodder, rapeseed, and summer wheat. The Canadian farm located in the Red River Valley produced barley, rapeseed, soybeans, summer wheat, and winter wheat. The Canadian farm located in Saskatchewan produced linseed, oats, peas, rapeseed, barley, and summer wheat. The German farm produced rapeseed, sugar beets, and winter wheat. The smaller Ukraine farm produced corn, rapeseed, soybeans, sunflowers, and winter wheat. The larger Ukraine farm produced corn, soybeans, sunflowers, and winter wheat. The southern Indiana farm produced corn, soybeans, and winter wheat. The production of winter wheat on the southern Indiana farm enables this farm to produce double-crop soybeans. The Kansas farm produced corn (both irrigated and non-irrigated) and winter wheat. Wheat YieldsAlthough yield is only a partial gauge of performance, it reflects the available production technology across farms. Average wheat yield for the farms in 2013 to 2016 was 66.8 bushels per acre (4.49 metric tons per hectare). Figure 1 illustrates average wheat yield per hectare for each typical farm. Average farm yields ranged from approximately 30.3 bushels per acre (2.04 metric tons per hectare) for the typical farm in Australia to 138.8 bushels per acre (9.33 metric tons per hectare) for the German farm. The Indiana farm had an average yield of 64.8 bushels per acre (4.36 metric tons per hectare) while the Kansas farm had an average yield of 40.6 bushels per acre (2.73 metric tons per hectare).
Edited by zenfarm 2/5/2019 15:58
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