Corn Commentary

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Corn*

*But Were Afraid to Ask.

It’s all in “The Corn Fact Book.”

For example, did you know that…

…only about 1 percent of the corn we grow is eaten as corn?

…U.S. farmers grow five times more corn today than in the 1930s on 20 percent less land?

…today’s farmers produce 70 percent more corn per pound of fertilizer than they did 35 years ago?

…that corn is America’s biggest crop – and the world’s – and that U.S. corn farmers grow 2/5s of the world’s corn?

“The Corn Fact Book” is a new publication from the Corn Farmers Coalition, which includes the National Corn Growers Association and 10 state corn associations. It can be downloaded for free here on the website.