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Excerpt from Fats and Oils Situation: August 1976 Early August indications pointed to a 1976 soy bean crop of million bushels million metric tons), about 177 million below last year's crop. Yield per harvested acre was estimated at bushels metric tons per hectare), com pared with last year's record bushels. About a tenth of the soybean crop was planted following the harvest of another crop, compared with 7 per cent the past 2 years. Soybean yields usually are relatively low on double cropped acreage following small grain harvest During the past decade, pro duction changes between the August 1 forecast and the final estimate averaged 45 million bushels, ranging from 1 million to 99 million bushels. During those 10 years, the August 1 forecast was above the final estimate three times by an average of 60 million bushels and below seven times by an average of 38 million bushels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.