I&S Gr7 Unit3 SA#1: Food Planning Presentation

Corns

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Where did corn come from?

Corn was invented in Mexico at least 7000 years ago. Teosinte, a wild grass, was used to launch it. Teosinte looked nothing like our corn today. The kernels were tiny and not crowded together like those on a modern corn ear's husked ear.

Where can it be found now?

Corn is produced in almost every state in the United States, but production is concentrated in the Midwest (including Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, eastern portions of South Dakota and Nebraska, western Kentucky and Ohio, and the northern two-thirds of Missouri).

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Trade: Why did people find it desirable?

Culture: How does this resource impact cultures?

• Corn is the second most widely produced cereal for human use, and it has long been a staple in many cultures around the world.
• Corn is a flexible seed, and you can use anything on a corn farm.
• Corn is inextricably connected to the peasant and indigenous communities of Mexico's everyday lives. It forms everyday meals as the essential grain, and its increasing period affects festival timing.

• When Indians moved north to the eastern woodlands of present-day North America some 1000 years ago, they took maize with them.
• Corn was a large part of the diet of most native peoples of North and South America before Europeans like Columbus made peace with them.
• Corn is the most common feed grain in the United States, accounting for more than 95 percent of overall feed grain supply and consumption. Corn is cultivated on more than 90 million acres of land.
• The bulk of the crop is used as the primary source of energy in livestock feed.

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Corn now makes up more than a tenth of the world's crop supply. Moreover, over 99 percent of planted corn is of the same variety. Humans, on the other hand, evolve faster than any other plant on the earth.

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