Now, as always, corn growers understand meeting the demands of a growing world market cannot come at the expense of ecological health, human safety or economic viability. True sustainability encompasses environmental, economic and social factors, and farmers are doing a wonderful job.
How they manage to produce such abundance while responding to society’s needs of cheap, safe food and increased sustainability is a remarkable success story. If you want to learn more about the industry and this modern day success story the 2010 World of Corn is a great place to start.
World of Corn is a respected collection of the most important statistics about corn production, exports, consumption, providing key information in a readable format, comparing numbers and trends across the years.
This year’s publication titled “Innovation in Action” highlights the crop’s amazing versatility by looking into the more than 4,200 different uses for corn. A special edition of World of Corn featuring statistics in metric measurements.
So, at the end of the day when you find yourself asking who really cares for the land, publications like this clearly point out it is the people who live on the land…America’s farmers. They grow more food now compared with a few decades ago, yet use barely half the energy and fewer resources for every bushel produced. For farmers, the land is more than their livelihood. It’s their legacy.