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December 23, 2013

UNL Research Raises Concerns About Future Global Crop Yield Projections
Lincoln NB (SPX) Dec 23, 2013
About 30 percent of the major global cereal crops - rice, wheat and corn - may have reached their maximum possible yields in farmers' fields, according to University of Nebraska-Lincoln research published this week in Nature Communications. These findings raise concerns about efforts to increase food production to meet growing global populations. Yields of these crops have recently decreased or plateaued. Future projections that would ensure global food security are typically based on a constant i ... read more

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