Here are some scenarios that corn farmers believe will fill a market demand in the United States, as well as abroad. Corn as a renewable resource Many of the everyday products we use are made from petroleum-based chemicals. Consider, for example, products such as plastics, oils, paints, dyes, pharmaceuticals, fast-food containers, and so on. However, it would also make environmental sense, because corn-based products eventually degrade in the soil, returning nutrients to the earth. Furthermore, the source of the materials, corn, is renewable.
Farmers can always grow more corn.
But the supplies of petroleum will eventually begin to decline. Specialty corn Advances in corn research will enable farmers to become more and more capable of responding to customer needs. Farmers may be able to grow corn with special characteristics that would benefit the poultry and livestock that eat the corn. Specialty corn may even help to reduce the odor of livestock manure. In the future, corn products could contain higher levels of nutrients such as vitamins C and E, and beta carotene.