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Corn has many uses. It is one of the world's most versatile crops.
Please note that 0.7% of all the corn grown in the U.S. is sweet corn, or "veggie corn." 99.3% is field corn, also called commercial corn.
You can imagine the leaves on a corn plant as solar panels. The leaves convert the sun's energy into the kernels on each ear of corn. That means that energy we cannot consume (solar energy) changes form into corn kernels. Those kernels are used in many ways.
The part of the corn plant that is not harvested also has use. It can remain on the crop land and act like a mulch, protecting the land from soil and water erosion. It also composts, adding nutrients back into the soil.
Consult the 2010 World of Corn at the related link below for a full report on the U.S. corn crop and its uses.
In the U.S., the biggest user of corn is the livestock industry. Beef cattle, dairy cattle, hogs, and poultry all consume the corn kernels and change the form of the energy into protein, which we as humans can then consume.
The next biggest user of corn in the U.S. is the ethanol industry. The corn kernels are separated into their various parts, and the starch and cellulosic parts can be turned into ethanol. The by-product of this process called DDGS can be used as a livestock feed. So making ethanol does not remove the opportunity to use that same corn kernel as livestock feed and therefore human food.
A small percentage of the corn industry is used in this country for industrial purposes, like bio-degradable plastics. Basically, any product that uses petroleum can use corn derivatives instead.
A small percentage of the U.S. corn crop is turned directly into a human food source like corn meal or corn oil.
About 7% of the U.S. corn crop is made into HFCS, or high fructose corn syrup. HFCS is certified as a natural product by the US government. The corn kernel is refined into the sweetener. This is similar to the refining process that turns sugar beets and sugar cane into what we call "table sugar."
A large portion of the U.S. corn crop is exported around the world and used for the same reasons stated above.
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What are 2 uses for corn besides eating?
Corn is used to make ethanol fuel. Corn has also become an "attraction," as families flock to fields of mazes to challenge their puzzle-solving skills! and poopy like baby daby
What is corn products used for?
Corn products are used for eating and to fuel a variety of machines and other items.
What do they use corn for in medieval times?
This is very obvious, they used corn for eating.
What is a good fact?
corn is now used for fuel!
What is in corn to be used as fuel in automobiles?
Alcohol, after fermentation
What are oranges used for besides for eating?
SQUIRTING PEOPLE IN THE EYE! :D ~.skirbys.~
Can corn oil be used for diesel fuel?
Straight corn oil cannot be used directly as a fuel in any engines. It must first be refined in a similar way to the crude oil which comes from underground oil wells. One way is to use the corn oil as the raw material for the production of a fuel suitable for internal combustion engines: first ferment the corn oil and then distil the resulting "brew" to make ethanol. Ethanol is an alcohol that can be used directly as a fuel for gasoline engines and it can also be used as a good "fuel supplement" when mixed - in small amounts - with the normal diesel fuel that is used for diesel engines.
Besides being an ingredient in cooking what other uses are there for corn starch?
can be used as a poultice or wound dressing
What other products besides corn syrup that corn can be made into?
cornmeal, cornstarch, tortillas, corn chips, whisky, etc. The cobs have often been used to make corncob pipes. The husks are used to wrap tamales and could be used as wrapping for other foods during cooking.
What are hogs used for?
corn,meat and slop. They're not very fussy about what they eat.
What crop grown in South Dakota gets turned into fuel?
Corn, primarily; it gets turned into ethanol which is used as fuel.
Does soybeans make fuel?
You can try using corn oil for biodiesel. Corn oil is used for cooking and used cooking oil is used for diesel fuel. Actually, the process of cooking with oil performs the same process on the corn oil as crackling does in an oil refinery. Thus, it would be possible to take corn oil and mix it with petroleum in a refinery and create diesel fuel.
