Corn is an important component of the Kansas agricultural economy.
In fact, corn production in Kansas has more than doubled in the last ten years. The Kansas Corn Growers Association represents the Kansas corn industry. Corn is the nation's largest agricultural crop in bushels, where 9.97 billion bushels of corn were harvested in 2000. Kansas produced 416 million bushels of corn in 2000 and ranks eighth in U.S. corn production. Although about 60 percent of the U.S. corn crop is fed to U.S. livestock, markets created by export demand and new uses are vital to the corn industry.