South Dakota Farmers Feed the World

As the world population grows, farmers need to grow more food in the next 40 years than in the previous 10,000 years combined. South Dakota farmers and corn growers are rising to the challenge, increasing yields while caring for the land as true environmentalists.

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• Corn
• Farmers
• South Dakota
• Feed the World
• True Environmentalists
• farmer
• farm
• ag
• SD
• population
• world

[sdcorn]

28% went to ethanol production in 2011 displacing the needs for more than 440 million barrels of oil.

[sdcorn]

Less than 1% of the corn raised in the United States is directly consumed by humans. The other 99% is #2 yellow corn whose number 1 customer is livestock in the United States and around the world.

[RenLong1]

@organicpaulguy

We now have over 25% of grain corn used for ethanol production. After that use, 17.5 pounds per bushel of distiller's grain still is used as high-protein livestock feed (to help produce the beef, pork, and poultry that help feed the world!). Human's do not consume the grain corn shown in this promo. South Dakota also produced almost 800 million dollars in wheat sold to feed the world.

[RenLong1]

I love my access to some organic food as well, but we do not have a chance of feeding the world growing by 800,000 people every four months (the population of SD by the way!) if we do not use all the technology and land available much more efficiently than that!

[RenLong1]

While I understand your obvious concern for corn grown in a non-organic way, please realize that the corn that you see in this promo is grain corn used to feed beef cattle, hogs, and poultry that does in fact help feed the world. People consume sweet corn, not South Dakota's focus for production. Did you know that although 25% of produced corn now goes to ethanol production, after this production, 17.5 pounds per bushel of high-protein "distillers grain" still goes to feed livestock?

[organicpaulguy]

If less then 1% of the corn raised in the US goes for human consumption & the other 99% goes for animals consumption, then what % of corn goes for Ethanol production?

[fonderrobert1]

Yeah I would half to agree with the commet below mine.

[organicpaulguy]

My first thought on watching this video is that corn is the only thing that's gonna feed the world in the future! I think people need to have more then just a bunch of Monsanto's GE corn in their everyday diet!

[SexyArmyMP]

I LOVE these advertisements.