Modern domesticated hybrid corn in the United States has resulted from 70 centuries of interactions with human needs and with changing environments.
Corn arrived in the southwestern United States via Native Americans about 3000 years ago and spread slowly over the continent.
Today’s corn in the US Corn Belt arrived from the American colonies in the east via European (1492 to 1800), then via American (1800 to 1900) westward expansion.
Corn is the most valuable commodity in US agriculture. Corn monopolizes nearly a third of the total cultivated acreage in the United States.
The growth rate in yield for corn production is four times that of wheat. Total the crop harvested in 2006 was 190.5 billion bushels.
Approximately 24 percent of the total US corn acreage and production occurs in the Great Plains, with more than 80 percent of that accounted for the Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
Nebraska itself has nearly nine million acres under corn each year and an annual total production of more than one billion bushels of the golden grain.
The success of the modern corn producer depends on making good decisions regarding production and management practices.
Cost of production for nay given grower are foxed for their set of condition and a considerable percentage of total yield is necessary to pay the production cost.
Corn produced in used in many ways. The majority of the crop is used as a feed grain for livestock and poultry production. About 20 percent of the grain is exported to other countries around the world.
The remainder is processed into various food and industrial products such as ethanol fuel, high fructose syrup, food grade and industrial starches and human food stuffs.
Corn Farming In United States
