In 2001 the U.S. corn crop was estimated at 9.5 billion bushels.
In 2011, Iowa produced 2.4 billion bushels of corn. Nebraska produced 1.5 billion bushels of corn. Illinois produced 1.9 billion bushels of corn.
corn flour comes from cooking ingredients
Tennessee produces about 59,520,000 bushels of corn per year.
roughly 20 percent
Each year the amount of corn produced is different due to various factors. In 2008, the US produced 307386.00 (1000 MT) of corn. Source: http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/cropview/CommodityView.cfm
It very much depends on the amount of corn produced, as if less corn is produced the prices rise and if more corn is harvested the prices drop- however, in the latter circumstance there is usually more to buy...
On average, about 825 million metric tons worldwide.
Corn starch, iodine and water.
It varies from year to year, of course, but Illinois farmers typically produce around two billion bushels of corn every year.
It's difficult to figure the total worldwide economic benefit from corn production, but just to give you an idea of the scale, the 2011 US corn (for grain) production was valued at $76.46 billion dollars.
Not at all. Ethanol is produced from field corn. Corn for human food is sweet corn. They are completely different, and neither has any effect on the other. Food costs are much more greatly affected by transportation costs than anything else.
George Renninger