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Energy and ethanol
What is ethanol? How much corn is dedicated to ethanol production? Why should corn be used to produce ethanol?
Soil and sustainability
How is farming a system? What are the inputs (fertilizer, pesticide, seed) and outputs (crop yield, emissions, runoff)? What impact does soil as a storage have on the consequences of these inputs and outputs?
Did you know?
DDGs are a value-added food source.
Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDGs), a co-product of ethanol production, are a nutrient-rich feed source for livestock.
There are seven operational ethanol plants in Ohio.
33% of Ohio’s corn crop is used to make ethanol. Over 95% of all U.S. fuel contains 10% ethanol.
Bt corn reduces the need for pesticides.
Bt corn, used to control insects that damage corn, reduced the need for herbicides. Herbicide-tolerant corn allows less tilling of the soil, resulting in a 58% reduction in soil loss from 1980–2015.
Ohio is the seventh leading producer of corn in the United States.
In 2021, Ohio’s farmers harvested over 1,437 hectares of corn. That’s about 154,677,393 square feet of corn!