{"id":23186,"date":"2019-10-16T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prograin.ca\/ca\/?p=23186"},"modified":"2024-05-15T19:40:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T19:40:47","slug":"one-hundred-bushels-per-acre-reality-or-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prograin.ca\/ca\/en\/2019\/10\/16\/one-hundred-bushels-per-acre-reality-or-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred Bushels per Acre: Reality or Fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Maxime\u00a0Gratton, Agr<\/a>., District Sales Manager and Alexandre\u00a0Tessier, Agr.<\/a>, Eastern Canada Sales Manager<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, we participated in a field day in Ontario, a researcher at one of the stations was telling us about his goal to achieve a yield target of 100 bushels (about 2.5 tonnes) per acre. To accomplish that, he is promoting intensive management based on an increased use of fertilizers and the application of fungicides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering all the factors that producers in Quebec cannot\ncontrol, achieving an average yield of 2.5 t\/acre over large areas is a\nmajor feat (if not fiction!). On the other hand, from a completely different\nperspective, economic profitability that could result from a yield of\n2.5 t\/acre with GMO soybean intended for human consumption is\nrealistically achievable for the top producers in each region, that is, the top\n25 % with the highest delivered and registered yields for a single variety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To better illustrate this, here is an example with the Marula<\/a> variety, which was\ndelivered during the 2018 harvest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On average, yields for this group ranged from 1.63 to\n2.06 t\/acre. For the same economic return and taking into account the\nvariety premium as well as herbicide and seed costs, the results are as\nfollows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n