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摘要

The next time you go to a farm show, draw up your cell phone's calculator app and play this game. Friendly sales folks at one booth will promise you yield gains of 6 bushels per acre if you'll only use their magical concoction. Even friendlier folks at the next booth will raise the ante up to 10 bushels per acre. Meanwhile, the folks at the booth after that promise you'll bust the bins with a 12-bushel-per-acre yield increase.Add them up, and you'll probably be shocked. If everything works the way these smiling sages say it will, you'll be harvesting 600-bushel-per-acre corn, 300-bushel soybeans, and 200-bushel wheat.