Reading Gizmodo for ag is like reading AgWeb for the latest zero-day. It might be fine (the Gizmodo content on this year’s wheat crop mirrors the USDA reports cited above) but there are other sources for which it is their full time job.
For global ag, you might want to start with USDA or FAO for a fuller picture before putting a lot of faith on a single study saying anything definitive about global ag, especially purporting 20% differences over the entirety of world agricultural production.
https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/cj82k7...
Weekly weather and crop bulletin from the USDA.
For continual improvement over time in US corn yield, see
https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/YieldTren...
For continual improvement over time in US soybean yield, see
https://www.farmprogress.com/soybean/what-s-really-driving-h...
For current and forecasted global ag production, see
http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/ca8861en
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2020-2029
https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/world-agricultural-production
Reading Gizmodo for ag is like reading AgWeb for the latest zero-day. It might be fine (the Gizmodo content on this year’s wheat crop mirrors the USDA reports cited above) but there are other sources for which it is their full time job.
For global ag, you might want to start with USDA or FAO for a fuller picture before putting a lot of faith on a single study saying anything definitive about global ag, especially purporting 20% differences over the entirety of world agricultural production.