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The production of corn (Zea mays mays, also known as "maize") plays a major role in the economy of the United States. The US is the largest corn producer in the world, with 96,000,000 acres (39,000,000 ha) of land reserved for corn production. Corn growth is dominated by west/north central Iowa and east central Illinois. Approximately 13% of ...
The Corn Belt is a region of the Midwestern United States and part of the Southern United States that, since the 1850s, has dominated corn production in the United States. In North America, corn is the common word for maize. More generally, the concept of the Corn Belt connotes the area of the Midwest dominated by farming and agriculture ...
The types of farmworkers include field crop workers, nursery workers, greenhouse workers, supervisors, etc. [34] The United States Department of Labor findings for the years 2019-2020 report that 63 percent of crop workers were born in Mexico, 30 percent in the mainland United States or Puerto Rico, 5 percent in Central America, and 2 percent ...
Last month USDA forecast corn production of 14.860 billion bushels and a soybean crop of 4.450 billion bushels. U.S. 2024/25 corn end stocks forecast clocked in at 2.097 billion bushels, lower ...
In southern Illinois, the second biggest corn-producing state, farmers could actually lose up to $160 an acre growing corn this year, based on corn prices and the cost of production, University of ...
The following are international Maize (corn) production statistics come from the Food and Agriculture Organization figures from FAOSTAT statics The quantities of corn (maize, Zea mays) in the following table are in million metric tonnes (m STs, m LTs). All countries with a typical production quantity of at least 10 million t (11 million short ...
An aerial view shows the corn maze at Richardson Adventure Farm in Spring Grove, Illinois. The 28-acre maze is billed as the world's largest.
Sun Belt, southern, hot-weather states stretching from coast to coast; Unchurched Belt, a region in the far Northwestern United States that has low religious attendance; Wheat Belt, northern midwestern states where most of North America's grain and soybeans are grown (cf. Breadbasket) [1]