• General
• Impacts of Biotech
• Organic vs. Conventional

See also:

• Global Food Security
• Organic Farming Systems
• Soil Health
• Ag Biotech
• Nutrient Decline

General

• “Is There a Yield Penalty with Continuous Corn?” from Corn and Soybean Digest, 2013
• 2013 paper in the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, “Sustainability and innovation in staple crop production in the Midwest”
• “Identifying Factors Controlling the Continuous Corn Yield Penalty,” in Agronomy Journal from 2013
• 2013 paper in Nature: Communications “Distinguishing between yield advances and yield plateaus in historical crop production trends”
• “Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050,” in PLOS One from 2013
• “Integrated soil–crop system management for food security,” 2011 paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Impacts of Biotech

• From Crop Science in 2013, “The Realized Yield Effect of Genetically Engineered Crops: U.S. Maize and Soybean”
• 2009 Union of Concerned Scientists Report, “Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops”
• 2004 opinion piece in TRENDS in Plant Science, “Crop Transformation and the challenge to increase yield potential”
• “Plant Growth and Nitrogenase Activity of Glyphosate-Tolerant Soybean in Response to Foliar Glyphosate Applications,” in Agronomy Journal, 2001
• “World Food System Challenges and Opportunities: GMOs, Biodiversity, and Lessons from America’s Heartland,” Dr. Benbrook white paper, 1999
• “Yield Comparisons of Bt and Non-Bt Corn Hybrids in Missouri in 1999,” Integrated Pest and Crop Management Newsletter, 1999
• “Yield Potential and Response of Roundup Ready Soybean Varieties to Raptor or Pursuit Herbicides,” Kansas State University, 1998
• “Performance of Transgenetic Soybeans- Northern US,” University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1998“What is Yield?”symposium presentation by Donald Duvick, 1996

Organic vs Conventional

• 2014 article in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, “Diversification practices reduce organic to conventional yield gap”
• 2012 Research Letter in Nature “Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture” and Dr. Benbrook commentary
• “Comparing apples with oranges” 2012 paper in Nature describing a meta-analysis of organic vs. conventional yields
• 2006 paper in Horticultural Science comparing apple orchard productivity and fruit quality under different farming systems
• “Organic and Conventional Agriculture Reconsidered,” 2005 Letter to the Editor in BioScience
• “Sustainability of three apple production systems,” 2001 article in Nature