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The Omnivore's Dilemma
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The only way to make sure your plants produce the same amount of corn — that they have the same yield as the original hybrid — is to buy new seed every year from a seed company.†
Chpt 1.2 *

yield = produce or give
A seed of wheat might, with luck, yield 50 new grains of wheat.†
Chpt 1.1
A single planted corn seed could yield 150 to 300 fat kernels.†
Chpt 1.1
Hybrid corn quadrupled the yields of farmers, from about twenty bushels per acre to about eighty bushels per acre.†
Chpt 1.2
New hybrids have increased farm yields to about 180 bushels per acre.†
Chpt 1.2
When farmers first planted hybrid corn in the 1930s their yields doubled or tripled.†
Chpt 1.2
But if they planted seed from that first crop, yields dropped again, since the second generation of corn was not identical to the first.†
Chpt 1.2
The only way to get the higher yields was to buy seed from seed companies.†
Chpt 1.2
Genetically modified corn seed (or GMO, for genetically modified organism) promises even higher yields than hybrid seed.†
Chpt 1.2
The arrival of high-yield corn changed all that.†
Chpt 1.2
As yields grew and farmers grew more corn, prices dropped.†
Chpt 1.2
Though hybrids were introduced in the thirties, it wasn't until farmers started using chemical fertilizers in the 1950s that corn yields really exploded.†
Chpt 1.3
It's a form of yield insurance.†
Chpt 1.3
One way is to boost yield per acre.†
Chpt 1.3

Definitions:

(1) (yield as in: will yield valuable data)
to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
(2) (yield as in: yield to pressure)
to give in, give way, or give up
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)