Fun Facts: Things To Know About Corn

Fun Facts:  Things To Know About Corn

1.  Corn is the most produced food commodity in the United States.

2.  The United States produces more corn than it does milk, soybeans, wheat, sugar cane, sugar beets & potatoes combined.   

3.  The United States produces more than 770 BILLION pounds of corn.

4.  The United States could more than feed itself with corn.

5.  The United States uses more corn for ethanol production than Brazil produces.

6.  The United States produces 36.5% of the world's corn.

7.  There are more corn acres in the United States than acres in New Mexico.  If corn acres were a state, it would be the fifth largest behind Alaska, Texas, California & Montana.   

8.  The United States exports more corn than Argentina produces.

9.  The United States produces more corn than Indonesia, Bangladesh, Russia, Japan, Pakistan & Nigeria produce food (top 20).

10.  Corn in the United States is the second biggest crop in the world followed by sugar cane in Brazil.