Corn Trivia

• One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop.

• A bushel of corn fed to livestock produces 5.6 pounds of retail beef, 13 pounds of retail pork, 32 pounds of chicken, or 28 pounds of catfish.

• Farmers grow corn on every continent except Antarctica.

• The main ingredient in most dry pet food is corn.

• The corn cob (ear) is actually part of the corn plant’s flower.

• Each tassel on a corn plant releases as many as 5 million grains of pollen.

• There are about 600 kernels on each ear of corn.

• Pioneers planted 4 corn kernels for every plant they hoped to harvest: "1 for the maggot, 1 for the crow, 1 for the cutworm, and 1 to grow".

• The corn plant has both male and female parts. The silk is the female part while the tassel is the male part.

• Sorbitol, produced from the corn sugar dextrose, is used in toothpaste as a low-calorie, water soluble bulking agent.