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  2. Corn production in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Corn Field (9622254931) There are 80,000,000 acres (32,000,000 ha) of land dedicated exclusively to corn cultivation in the United States. The US is the world's leading producer of corn, [ 16 ] having produced 333,010,910 tonnes (327,751,510 long tons; 367,081,690 short tons) of the crop in the year 2009.

  3. Maize - Wikipedia

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    Maize / m eɪ z / (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte.

  4. Field corn - Wikipedia

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    Field corn, also known as cow corn, is a North American term for maize (Zea mays) grown for livestock fodder (silage and meal), ethanol, cereal, and processed food products. The principal field corn varieties are dent corn , flint corn , flour corn (also known as soft corn) which includes blue corn ( Zea mays amylacea ), [ 1 ] and waxy corn .

  5. ‘It’s been a tough year.’ NC farmers look for solutions as ...

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    The knee-high field corn at David McKee’s farm in Rougemont is green but stunted this week, its roots clinging to hard, red clay webbed with half-inch cracks and its leaves curled and twisted ...

  6. Three Sisters (agriculture) - Wikipedia

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    Maize, climbing beans, and winter squash planted together. The Three Sisters (Spanish: tres hermanas) are the three main agricultural crops of various indigenous people of Central and North America: squash, maize ("corn"), and climbing beans (typically tepary beans or common beans).

  7. History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Research on plant breeding produced varieties of grain crops that could produce high yields with heavy fertilizer input. This resulted in the Green revolution, beginning in the 1940s. [90] By 2000 yields of corn (maize) had risen by a factor of over four. Wheat and soybean yields also rose significantly. [91] [92]

  8. Morrow Plots - Wikipedia

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    Named for Professor George E. Morrow, it is the oldest such field in the United States [3] and the second oldest in the world. [4] It was established in 1876 as the first experimental corn field at an American college and continues to be used today, although with three half-acre plots, instead of the original ten . [ 3 ]

  9. Agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    shows a tractor plowing a crop field Worker overseeing cotton gin, ca. 1940s. Agriculture is a major industry in the United States, which is a net exporter of food. [1] As of the 2017 census of agriculture, there were 2.04 million farms, covering an area of 900 million acres (1,400,000 sq mi), an average of 441 acres (178 hectares) per farm. [2]