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The Story of… Corn

The Story of… Corn. By: Kai Lin Grace Groeger. Is a very versatile product, and used in/by a lot of things. Corn uses started around 5,000 B.C in Mexico and later spread to the rest of the world.

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The Story of… Corn

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  1. The Story of… Corn By: Kai Lin Grace Groeger

  2. Is a very versatile product, and used in/by a lot of things. Corn uses started around 5,000 B.C in Mexico and later spread to the rest of the world. Corn use to only have a few kernels per a cob, but by natural selection they have been able to make it to have about 800 kernels today today. Corn plays a big role in the shape of national policy. Corn

  3. It takes about 85 to 140 days for a corn to reach full maturity. Corn is harvested by a huge machine called a combine. They cost about $240,000 each. Inside the combine a machine separates the husks, kernels, and cob. Next it is sent to grain cart or wagon. Later its then transported to tucks to be shipped out for eating corn on the cob or the kernels will be sent for washings caned or bagged for other uses. For corn on the cob that we eat it must be shipped out right way or it will lose its flavor. People will also send out the corn to be dried for lots of uses. But it costs lots of money to store and dry the corn because it must be kept at cretin temperatures and dries must be on at all times. And if the farmers don’t have there own grain bin must send it out to other places that do witch then cost even more money. “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”

  4. Products • Corn is in EVERYTHING we eat! • High-fructose corn syrup, corn-fed meat, and corn-based processed foods are the staples of the modern diet.  • Corn is even in things we don’t eat. • Clothing and plastic can be make of corn. • Ethanol an alternative fuel is made of corn.

  5. Environmental • Corn depletes nutrient from the soil. • Therefore, farmers use commercial fertilizers went growing corn. • Apart from residues on the crops, it goes into the local watercourses and pollutes the water as well. • Fertilizers kill plants. • Dead plants take oxygen and kill fish.

  6. Since corn is so abundant, it makes it cheep to sweeten foods leading to obesity. Corn is feed to lots of the cows we eat and because it is not part of their natural diet they are fed antibiotics causing once useful drugs are not helpful to use anymore if we eat the beef. By mixing ethanol in to gas causes more smog then regular gas. Also by making ethanol it seems to be safer on the environment it we have to burn a lot of fossil fuels to make it witch in return does not help out the environment. Consequences

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