{"id":340921,"date":"2024-08-28T09:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340921"},"modified":"2024-08-28T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:24:08","slug":"record-setting-crops-are-good-news-bloomberg-thanks-for-reporting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340921","title":{"rendered":"Record Setting Crops Are Good News, Bloomberg, Thanks for Reporting It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By H. Sterling Burnett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human Progress<\/a> excerpted a paywalled article from Bloomberg<\/a> discussing the fact that major crops are expected to continue to set records in the 2024\/2025 crop year. This good news is not unexpected for anyone who understands agronomy and botany or who regularly reads Climate Realism<\/em>. It reflects the long-term trend for most crops during the period of modest warming and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. Sadly, Bloomberg\u2019s story ignores the proven and significant role rising CO2 levels are playing in improved crop yields and production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human Progress writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared with a decade ago, the world will harvest in 2024-25 about 10% more wheat, about 15% more corn, nearly 30% more soybeans, and about 10% more rice. Except for corn, all the other three key food commodities will enjoy a record high production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[T]he US Department of Agriculture said it anticipates American farmers will reap record yields for two key food commodities: on average, 183.1 bushels per acre of corn, and 53.2 bushels per acre of soybeans\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two decades ago, US corn farmers were harvesting about 150 bushels per acre; in the mid-1980s, the number was closer to 110 bushels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This good news further confirms what Climate Realism<\/em> has long pointed out. Modestly warmer weather and higher CO2 levels are good for plants in general, leading to a net greening of the earth and boosting yields and production of crops. In fact, the most recent data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization<\/a> (FAO) show that globally the yield and production of cereal crops (the crop segment that makes up the majority of the calorie intake each day, often referred to as staple foods, rice, wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, and maize, for example), have increased dramatically over the recent period slight warming. Between 1990 and 2022, the most recent year for which the FAO has data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n