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Yield

Meaning in agriculture, with examples

/jiːld/nounCore term

In agriculture, yield means: The amount of crop, milk or other product obtained from a given area or animal, usually given as tonnes per hectare or kilograms per decare.

In Turkish: verim, dekara verim, rekolte

How it is used

Used constantly in field trials, seed catalogs and farm reports. People talk about high, average and low yields, yield losses and yield potential. It is also a verb: 'The field yielded six tonnes per hectare.'

Example sentences

  1. The new variety gave a yield of 650 kilograms per decare in our trials.

  2. Late frost reduced apricot yields by almost half this year.

Common collocations

  • high yield
  • yield per hectare
  • yield loss
  • yield potential
  • increase yields
  • cropA plant grown on a large scale for food, feed, fiber or income, such as wheat, cotton or tomatoes; also the amount of it gathered in one season.
  • harvestThe work of gathering a ripe crop from the field, the time of year when this happens, or the total amount gathered.
  • hectareA metric unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters, or ten decares; the standard unit for land and yields in international agriculture.
  • varietyA named type of a crop plant with particular features, such as yield, quality, earliness or disease resistance, developed by breeders and sold as seed or plants.
  • milk yieldThe amount of milk an animal or herd produces, usually measured in liters or kilograms per day or per lactation.

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