corn production
Growing yellow kernels
Corn production is the cultivation and harvesting of corn as an agricultural enterprise.
The term encompasses everything from planting and growing to yield statistics and market output: Corn production in the Midwest broke records this year.
It appears frequently in discussions of farming economics, food supply, and ethanol manufacturing.
- silageFermented crop fodder
- bushelsDry volume units
- irrigation systemsFarm water distribution infrastructure
- tasselsOrnamental hanging tufts
- drought resistanceCapacity to survive water scarcity
monoculture · crop rotation · fertilization · rainfall · hybrid seeds · cash crop · climate change · biodegradable plastics · GPS mapping · subsidies · farm bill · soil quality · organic farming · cobs · erosion control · fields · cropland · planting season
- Pampas farmingcattle ranching, gauchos, soybeans, wheat farming, beef cattle
- farming historypeasant farming, crop rotation, enclosures, manorialism, threshing machine
- Plains Agriculturewheat farming, cattle ranching, grain elevators, farms, ranches
- Cagayan ValleyIsabela, Santiago, Gonzaga, Pamplona, Santa Ana
- Central-West BrazilBrasilia, Formosa, Ceres, Miranda, western states
- statisticsmean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation
corn productioncrop failure
When fields yield nothing
fallow land · blight · drought damage · desertification · urban development
corn productionurbanization
Population shift toward cities
industrial development · suburban sprawl · deforestation · rewilding · conservation land