Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator for Indiana

Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator for Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator for Indiana

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Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws

Yield monitoring — Collecting data on the amount of production at regular intervals combined with GPS readings. The resulting yield map is basic to decisions about fertilization, pest control, and other adjustments in a system of precision farming.

Yield — The number of bushels (or pounds or hundredweight) that a farmer harvests per acre. Under the Food Security Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-198), the farm program payment yield was the farmer's average yield for the 1981-1985 crop years, excluding the years when the yields were highest and lowest. Payment yields used to implement commodity programs remained frozen at the level fixed in the 1985 farm bill until 2002. Under the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 101-171, Sec. 1102(e)), payment yields could be updated only for counter-cyclical payments, not for direct payments.

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