Today, the United States is the largest producer and consumer of corn. The bulk of grain corn is turned into ethanol, for use as fuel, or fed to the millions of animals raised each year for food and important by-products. Cattle, poultry, swine, fish, and other livestock eat the majority of grain corn grown each season to help produce one of the safest and most wholesome food supplies in the world. Generally, less than 10 percent of the corn used in the United States is directly ingested by humans.
Almost all parts of the corn plant can be used for processing, giving corn unique economic significance. Animal feed makes up the largest segment of use for U.S. corn- 5.7 billion bushels of corn are used annually as feed, and another 1.1 billion bushels are fed as Dried Distillers Grains (DDGs).
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