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Growing Corn in Iowa
Almost 25 percent of all cropland in the United States is devoted to growing corn. But nearly all of the corn grown in the US is "field corn," used to make animal feed, ethanol fuel, corn syrup and other industrial products. Less than one percent is sweet corn, the type we commonly eat as corn on the cob, for example.
The vast majority of the corn planted in Iowa is genetically modified. In the US, there is currently no national labeling system for genetically modified foods. |