Corn is the world's number one feed grain and silage crop.
Its unmatched combination of yield and nutritional quality optimizes farm efficiency, in the field as well as in the barn, producing more pounds of beef, more litres of milk, and more pounds of pork and poultry per acre than any other crop. Grain corn has also earned key human consumption markets, ranging from its use in distilleries to the production of sweeteners, cooking oil, breakfast cereals and corn chips. Increasingly, market demand is bolstered by industrial uses, including starches for the paper industry and raw materials for paint manufacturers. Until recently, many of the advances in hybrid corn have been out of reach for growers in western Canada. Corn is a grass.