For hundreds of years, corn production has been a source of constant strength for America—providing a solid foundation for our nation’s sustenance, stability, security and success.

Today, the places where corn is grown are much more than farms. They are business enterprises—managed by entrepreneurs and innovators who are bringing economic vitality to rural areas and helping shape the future of our nation.

In partnership with America’s livestock producers, corn growers provide our nation with nutritious food that is the safest, most abundant and most affordable in the world.

Ethanol plants are creating corn-based fuel that increases our domestic energy supply—and loosens the economic stranglehold of our dangerous dependence on imported oil.

Renewable corn is replacing scarce petroleum in plastics, chemicals and industrial applications—further enhancing our environment, economy and energy security.

Our talent at growing corn is matched only by our ability to do so on fewer acres with even greater environmental stewardship than just a few years ago.

What’s truly amazing is that only two percent of Americans are involved in agriculture, but they contribute in some way, everyday, to 100 percent of the nation’s population—and the economic success of our entire nation.

Corn is in the food on your plate—and perhaps even in the plate itself. Corn is in the fuel tank of your vehicle and possibly in the comforter on your bed. It’s in your soft drink. It’s in your windshield wiper fluid.

Corn is cleaning up the air. It’s cleaning up the water. And someday, corn will be in hydrogen fuel cells and pharmaceuticals.

America’s corn producers make a tremendous contribution to our nation that belies their relatively small numbers. Every time America raises its standards for the environment, energy security or economic development, America’s corn producers have delivered.

Corn is not only synonymous with American agriculture, it is the very standard by which American agriculture is measured. And, to a great degree, our ability to grow and add value to corn is one reason the United States is the standard by which the world measures itself.