Corn
Corn is America’s number one field crop? Corn leads all other crops in value and volume of production.
An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.
A pound of corn consists of approximately 1,300 kernels.
Each year, a single U.S. farmer provides food and fiber for 129 people – 97 in the U.S. and 32 overseas.
Corn is used to produce fuel alcohol. Fuel alcohol makes gasoline burn cleaner, reducing air pollution, and it doesn’t pollute the water.
Corn is native to the Americas, and some form of it was probably growing 7,000 years ago by Native American Indians.
One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop.