Which grain crop is grown on more U.S. acres than any other?

American farmers plant around ninety million acres of corn in a typical year, more than any other crop. Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska lead the Corn Belt.

Most U.S. corn is field corn, used for animal feed, ethanol fuel, corn syrup and cornstarch, rather than the sweet corn we eat on the cob.

Here’s a fun fact to check at your next cookout: an ear of corn almost always has an even number of rows, often sixteen, because the rows form in pairs.