field corn
Grain for cattle
Field corn is the variety of corn grown primarily as animal feed, for ethanol production, or for processing into corn syrup, starch, and other industrial products.
Unlike sweet corn, it's harvested after the kernels have dried and hardened on the stalk.
Most corn acreage in the United States is field corn, not the tender ears people eat directly.
Seed or essential core
- cobMaize ear's central cylinder
- huskDry seed covering
- earAuditory organ
- tasselOrnamental hanging cluster
stalk · silk · shuck · pericarp · dent · flint · endosperm · germ
Fermented crop fodder
- fodderCoarse livestock nourishment
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- swineDomestic porcine animals
poultry · feedlot · forage · hay · dairy · beef · ration · chopper
Cultivation of land, livestock
- farmlandAgricultural terrain
- acreageAmount of land owned
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
sowing · irrigation · fertilizer · pesticide · rotation · germination · tasseling · detasseling
kernel
Seed or essential core
tassel · stalk · silk · shuck · pericarp · dent · flint · endosperm · germ · bract
silage
Fermented crop fodder
- fodderCoarse livestock nourishment
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
swine · poultry · feedlot · forage · hay · dairy · beef · ration · chopper · fermentation
agriculture
Cultivation of land, livestock
tillage · sowing · irrigation · fertilizer · pesticide · rotation · germination · tasseling · detasseling · pollination
combine
Merge, or harvesting machine
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
- huskingRemoving dry outer covering
- shuckingRemoving outer covering
yield · grain elevator · bin · drying · reaper · harvester · autumn · moisture content · bushel · storage
ethanol
Drinkable volatile spirit
bourbon · whiskey · grits · hominy · masa · tortilla · industrial · commodity · processing · milling
- cornhominy, husk, masa, grits, polenta
- harvestreaping, fall harvest, wheat sheaf, reaper, reap
- rural Midwestgrain elevators, farms, family farms, silos, farmhouses
- field cropswheat, maize, soybeans, oats, rye
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, crop