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The US is the world's largest producer of corn. [8] According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average U.S. yield for corn was 177 bushels per acre, up 3.3 percent over 2020 and a record high, with 16 states posting state records in output, and Iowa reporting a record of 205 bushels of corn per acre.
From a production standpoint, miscanthus can produce 742 gallons of ethanol per acre of land, which is nearly twice as much as corn (399 gal/acre, assuming average yield of 145 bushels per acre under normal corn-soybean rotation) and nearly three times as much as corn stover (165 gal/acre) and switchgrass (214 gal/acre). Production costs are a ...
Short-term costs to planting cover crops and other sustainable practices can be an obstacle, but a Missouri program offers assistance for farmers. Farming sustainably comes with a financial cost ...
Crop kg oil/ha/yr litres oil/ha lbs oil/acre US gal/acre Coldest hardiness zone. Warmest hardiness zone maize (corn) : 147 172 129 18 3 11 cashew nut: 148 176 132
While there is more wheat grown per acre, corn has a better yield. In 2022, Kansas farmers averaged 115 bushels of corn an acre, compared to 37 bushels an acre of wheat.
Sulfur production in the United States was 9.04 million metric tons of sulfur content in 2014, all of it recovered as a byproduct, from oil refineries (83 percent), natural gas processing plants (10 percent), and metal smelters (7 percent). The United States was second in the world in sulfur production in 2014, behind China.
The quantities of corn (maize, Zea mays) in the following table are in million metric tonnes (m STs, m LTs). All countries with a typical production quantity of at least 10 million t (11 million short tons; 9.8 million long tons) are listed below.
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