Crop yield

The crop yield (English produce of soil, crop yield, agricultural output) are all within one growing season earned on goods that have arisen from the use of the soil and can be measured in value or quantity units. He is usually given as an annual income of € tonne or per hectare per year (t / ha / year, € / ha / year) and correspondences.

The base yield is dependent on soil type and fertility, terrain and climatic factors, as well as the use of capital (eg seed, fertilizer ), and work or processes and production methods (PPMs ) (about tillage). For example, the criteria of the compensatory allowance for mountain farmers in the framework of the Austrian ÖPUL that describe the handicaps of the bottom income include (in addition to accessibility of the farmstead, distance operation to the roads, conditions of a road maintenance, etc.):

• Steepness of the cultivated areas in 5 slope levels
• The number and extent of the separators
• Climate and soil conditions of operation
• Consideration of the creditworthiness of the ground farmed areas
• Altitude operation

For the classification of agricultural land according to soil quality, there are various methods, such as the number of fields (Brandenburg).

After the soil yield law, first formulated by Turgot, has the increased use of capital and labor by a certain limit to no corresponding rise in the bottom income result.