Feed the World is your one source for curriculum, news, giveaways, workshop information, and other classroom resources brought to you by your friends at Ohio Corn & Wheat.
Check out the latest from Feed the World
Northmor Students Test Backyard Soil to Understand Agricultural Science
Kaitlyn Wasilewski, an agriculture education teacher at Northmor Local Schools in Galion, …
More news stories
New Teacher Finds Essential Support Through Feed the World Workshop
Shadayah Lawrence, …
Heather Gilliland Bridges Agriculture and Science Education
Heather Gilliland …
Explore our free curriculum
Growing Ohio
Why is corn a valuable crop? How does corn grow, pollinate, and produce kernels? What farming techniques are important to increase corn yield?
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?
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.
Ethanol is a high-octane, low-carbon fuel of the future.
Ethanol is a high octane, low carbon fuel source. It is the lowest cost, most efficient, environmentally-friendly fuel option on the market.
Food and agriculture is Ohio’s top industry.
Agriculture is Ohio’s largest industry, earning over $124 billion annually on 76,900 farms in the state.
Ethanol helps to produce cleaner air.
The use of fuels containing ethanol blends reduce toxic tailpipe emissions by up to 50%.