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Originally Posted by Mleeja
From the Nebraska Corn Board
Field corn is the classic big ears of yellow dented corn you see dried and harvested in the fall. In fact, it’s sometime called “dent corn” because of the distinctive dent that forms on the kernel as the corn dries.
Field corn has dozens of uses, but it is most commonly fed to animals or used to make renewable fuels like ethanol to power our cars and trucks. But only part of the kernel is used for ethanol (the starch), the rest of the kernel, including the protein and fat, are then used to make another popular animal feed known as distillers grains.
People don’t eat field corn directly from the field because it’s hard and certainly not sweet. Instead, field corn must go through a mill and be converted to food products and ingredients like corn syrup, corn flakes, yellow corn chips, corn starch or corn flour.
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Ya, so what’s your point? If the land, efforts, and resources used to grow field corn was instead channeled onto growing sweet corn, also known as food corn, instead of growing field corn for ethanol, the gas we use would be more efficient and the world would have a much greater food supply. Farmers grow what they are incentivize to grow, not what is best for society. Stop incentivized farmers to grow corn that pollutes gas and doesn’t feed people.