Corn

20.Major challenges, harvesting and importance of corn?
Major insects, disease and weeds – what are the most common insects and how they can be controlled with growing corn?
other challenges for growing corn in the US?
Harvest – when and how is corn harvested in the US?
Yield – what is the yield of corn in the US?
What are the uses of corn? what kind of products can be made from corn?
Economic value- what is the total area, production and the overall economic importance of corn in the US?

Farmer’s in the United States grow corn more than any other crop. The cost of maize has steadily increased in recent years, as new ways to use the staple crop are found due to technological advances. Midwestern states such as Iowa as well as Illinois are responsible for 1/3 of the United States’ corn production. Find out the basics of the most widely-cultivated corn crop of the United States right now! (McConnell, 2018). Certain methods of producing corn as well as the effects of climate change pose an imminent threat to our country’s food supply due to the massive amounts of fertiliser and water required for the cultivation of maize. Corn is a water-intensive crop, and therefore requires irrigation in areas that don’t receive enough rainfall. The groundwater typically comes from the massive High Plains Aquifer in the central part of the country (Barton 2019, 2019). It’s the mainstay of states such as Nebraska as well as Kansas. Cont…