Between mid-1970s and mid-1980s crop
yields of amaranth more than doubled due to successful breeding research (Tucke 1986).
A staple grain for over 8,000 years,
the yield of amaranth is similar to maize or rice.
Not exact matches
If you're feeling adventurous, substitute up to 100 %
amaranth, though that amount
yields a real punch
of flavor.
Adam Davis, a researcher with the U.S. Department
of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and a professor
of crop sciences at the U.
of I., reported at a recent agricultural conference that Palmer
amaranth can reduce soybean
yields by 78 percent and corn
yields by 91 percent.
One
Amaranth plant can
yield thousands upon thousands
of little
Amaranth seeds.