Ohio's Corn Industry and the Ohio Farm Bureau
http://www.ohiocorn.org
http://www.ofbf.org

Corn is Ohio's second most valuable agricultural crop, right behind soybeans (dairy products comes in at number three). In the year 2000, more than 3 million acres of corn were grown and harvest in the state. And those three million acres produced more than 485 million bushels of corn, worth nearly $900 million.

In addition to cereal, there's a lot you can make with corn: cooking oil, gasoline, glue, ink and ice cream, for starters. More than 3,000 products at the grocery store include a corn ingredient! A little over half of the corn grown in Ohio is used for animal feed; 22.6% is exported and 5% is used for fuel and 8% for sweeteners.

The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation was founded in 1919 to improve the quality of life in all of Ohio's agricultural communities. The organization supports special projects that focus on agricultural education, environment and economic issues. Today, its members - over 200,000 farmers and non-farmers, urban and rural - work to improve rural standards of living, increase net farm income, and protect personal property rights.