We grow millions of bushels more corn than we and our farm animals can possibly eat.
Corn is a complex feedstock that we are processing into hundreds of different products. Not only all the corn based foods and animal feeds that America and the world can purchase and consume but pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, plastics and cosmetics, and yes, fuels too. As fast as we can develop new uses for corn, we flood the markets. We can grow millions of bushels more corn than we do today.
Here are the products now being processed from corn in the 1.5 billion dollar http://www.iowabiocenter.com/ just up the road a piece from me.
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Corn Syrup
Dextrose
Crude Corn Oil
Corn Gluten Meal
Sweet Bran®
Acidulants
Citric Acid
Anhydrous Citric Acid
Liquid Citric Acid
Sodium Citrate
Potassium Citrate
Glucosamine
Natural Vitamin E
D-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate
Mixed Tocopherols
Phytosterols
FFA
FAME
Ethanol
Monosodium Glutamate
Feed Grade Threonine
Feed Grade Lysine
Cyclodextrins
Were we to quit processing corn for best uses, we would have to put millions of acres of corn ground back into federal subsidies to not grow crops on it, and we still have 30 million cropland acres sitting idle that we currently pay farmers billions of dollars to not grow corn on.
larry
Thanks for posting that list of things made from corn. I am allergic to corn and now I see why I have had reactions to things I didn’t know were corn related.