Top Counties 
Corn for Grain (5 yr. average)

	County	Production (bushels)	Harvested Acres	Yield/Acre (bushels)
	1. Dallam	24.7 mil	125,860	196
	2. Hartley	20.6 mil	104,160	198
	3. Sherman	13.3 mil	68,000	195
	4. Castro	12.7 mil	63,020	202
	5. Moore	12.2 mil	60,900	201
	6. Falls	6.2 mil	70,120	88
	7. Williamson	6.1 mil	82,980	73
	8. Hansford	5.6 mil	27,960	200
	9. Parmer	5.5 mil	27,740	200
	10. Bell	4.8 mil	65,740	73
	Texas Total	201.8 mil	1,678,000	120

Top States 
Corn for Grain (5 yr. average)

	County	Production (bushels)	Harvested Acres	Yield/Acre (bushels)
	1. Iowa	2.0 bil	12.0 mil	164
	2. Illinois	1.7 bil	11.3 mil	155
	3. Nebraska	1.2 bil	7.8 mil	148
	4. Minnesota	1.0 bil	6.7 mil	153
	5. Indiana	824.7 mil	5.5 mil	149
	12. Texas	201.8 mil	1.7 mil	120
	U.S. Total	10.3 bil	71.6 mil	144

 

Corn Planting Areas in Texas
• Area 1 (March – mid April) - East Texas
• Area 2 (late February – March) - Upper Gulf Coast
• Area 3 ( February – mid March) - South Texas
• Area 4 (mid April – mid May) - Texas Panhandle
• Area 5 - Central Texas
• Area 6- West Texas

Texas Corn Planting
• Depending on conditions, around 22,000 to 25,000 individual corn plants are grown on one acre of land.
• The majority of corn grown in Texas is “dent” corn used for animal feed.
• Texas corn farmers plant around two million acres of corn each year.
• One acre of corn is the size of a football field.
• A single corn seed produces a plant that yields about 800 kernels of corn per ear.
• Depending upon the type equipment used, Texas farmers plant 150-300 acres of corn per 12-14 hour day.

 

Corn Harvesting

Corn Harvesting Areas PDF
• Area 1 – (Mid July – August) East Texas
• Area 2 – (Mid July – August) Upper Gulf Coast
• Area 3 – (Mid June – July) South Texas
• Area 4 – (Mid September – Mid October) Texas Panhandle
Source: Texas Agricultural Extension Service

Where does Texas corn end up? PDF
• The great majority of Texas corn production goes to feed livestock.
• Nearly all the feed corn produced on the High Plains goes to local feed yards.
• Low Plains and Cross Timbers feed corn is sold to elevators for merchandising or fed locally to livestock.
• Elevators handle most of the feed corn produced in the Blacklands and Edwards Plateau.
• East Texas and South Texas feed corn is marketed through grain elevators with some used by local livestock and poultry feeders.
• Local and port elevators are the primary destinations of the feed corn produced in the Upper Coast, Coastal Bend and Lower Valley.

Texas Corn Harvest Niblets
• The Northern High Plains accounts for almost two-thirds of the total Texas corn production.
• The statewide average yield for corn is around 140 bushels per acre.
• Texas corn farmers produce over 230 million bushels of corn each year.
• The value of the Texas corn crop is around $600 million annually.

 

Corn Plant Growth

Germination and Emergence PDF
Seedling reaches the surface in 8 to 12 days, at which time it splits open revealing the first leaves of the corn plant. Within approximately 72 days all leaves, ears, buds, and tassel which will be present in a mature plant are established. (Number of days depends upon location, seed variety, weather, and other conditions)

Tasseling PDF
At about 75 days the last branch of the tassel is completely visible, the plant has reached full height, and the pollen shed begins. (Number of days depends upon location, seed variety, weather, and other conditions.)

Silking PDF
Silks are visible at about 81 days and pollination is completed by the pollen shedding tassels in two to three days. Kernel development begins immediately after pollination. (Number of days depends upon location, seed variety, weather, and other conditions.)

Dent PDF
At approximately 114 – 119 days nearly all kernels are dented or denting (drying process leaves actual dent in kernel). Kernels at this stage have about 55% moisture. (Number of days depends upon location, seed variety, weather, and other conditions.)

Physiological Maturity (Harvest) PDF
At 145 to 160 days after planting, all kernels have attained maximum dry weight and maturity. At grain harvest, corn is ready to be harvested at 13-15% moisture. (Number of days depends upon location, seed variety, weather, and other conditions.)

 

Corn – Touching you Daily through By-Products

• Cornstarch (industrial uses)
- Abrasive paper and cloth
- Adhesives (glues, mucilages, gums, etc.)
- Batteries, dry cell
- Binder or binding agents
- Board (corrugating, laminating, solid fiberboard, cardboard)
- Boiler compounds
- Bookbinding
- Briquettes
- Ceramics (as clay binder)
- Chemicals
- Cleaners, detergents
- Coatings on wood, metal and paper
- Color carrier (in paper and textile printing )
- Cord polishing, sizing
- Cork products
- Crayon and chalk (as a binder)
- Dispersing and standardizing agent
- Dressing, surgical
- Dyes (as a bodying agent, carrier diluents, etc.)
- Fermentation processes
- Fiber glass size fireworks
- Insecticide powders
- Insulating material (glass, wool, rock wool, etc.)
- Lubricating agents
- Oilcloth
- Oil-well drilling (drilling mud)
- Ore refining (electrolytic reduction process, floatation process, etc.)
- Paints (cleaning compounds, coldwater and latex paints, plaster , lacquers, etc.)
- Paper and paper products manufacture
- Photographic films (annihilation powder)
- Plastics ( molder)
- Plywood (interior)
- Printing
- Protective colloids (emulsions)
- Textiles (warp sizing and finishing)
- Tile, ceiling
- Tires, rubber
- Wallboard and wallpaper
- Water recovery, industrial

• Cornstarch (Food, Drug and Cosmetic Uses)
- Antibiotics
- Aspirin
- Baby foods
- Bakery products (bread, rolls, cakes, pies, crackers and cookies)
- Baking powder
- Beverages, brewed (beer, ale, etc.)
- Chewing gum
- Chocolate drink
- Confectionery
- Cosmetics
- Desserts (puddings, custards, etc.)
- Drugs and pharmaceuticals
- Flours, prepared (including prepared mixes)
- Food and drug coatings
- Gravies and sauces
- Meat products
- Mixes, prepared (pancake, waffle, cake, candy, etc.)
- Mustard, prepared
- Pie filling
- Precooked frozen meals
- Salad dressing
- Soaps and cleaners
- Soups
- Sugar, powdered
- Vegetables, canned

• Dextrose (Food, Drug uses)
- Antibiotics
- Baby foods
- Bakery products (biscuits, bread, crackers, fillings, icings, macaroons, pretzels, cookies, wafers, etc.)
- Berries, canned and frozen
- Beverages, brewed (beer, ale, etc.)
- Beverages, carbonated
- Breakfast foods
- Caramel color
- Cheese foods and spreads
- Chewing gum
- Chocolate products
- Citric acid
- Citrus juices
- Coloring, pure food mix
- Condensed milk
- Confectionery
- Cordials, liqueurs and brandy
- Cream, frozen
- Dairy products
- Desserts
- Dietetic preparations
- Distillation products
- Doughnuts (cake, yeast)
- Drugs (fermentation process)
- Eggs, frozen or dried
- Fish, pickled
- Flavoring extracts
- Food acids (citric, etc.)
- Fruit juices
- Fruits and vegetables (canned)
- Fruits (candied, glace, frozen)
- Gelatin desserts
- Ice cream, water ices and sherbets
- Infant and invalid feeding
- Jams, jellies, marmalades and preserves
- Lactic acid
- Meat products (bacon, bologna, hams, sausage, frankfurters, mincemeat)
- Medicinal preparations & intravenous (injections, pills, tablets, drugs, etc.)
- Mixes, prepared (cake, icings and frosting, infant foods, pie fillings, toppings, etc.)
- Peanut butter
- Peas, canned
- Pickles and pickle products
- Prepared mixes
- Powders (ice cream, prepared dessert, pudding, summer drink, powders, etc.)
- Seasoning mixes, dry
- Sorbitol (in candies, toothpaste, etc.)
- Soups, dehydrated
- Spices and mustard preparations
- Syrups (table, fomtain, medicinal, etc.)
- Vinegar
- Wine
- Xanthan gums
- Yeast

• Corn Syrup (Industrial Uses)
- Adhesives (plasticizing agent)
- Chemicals
- Dyes and inks
- Explosives
- Leather tanning (chrome process)
- Metal plating
- Paper, glassine and parchment
- Plasticizer
- Polish, shoe
- Rayon (viscose process)
- Textiles, for finishing
- Theatrical make-up
- Tobacco and tobacco products

• Corn Oil, Refined (Food, Drug uses)
- Carriers for vitamins and other medicinal preparations in capsule form
- Cooking oil
- Margarine
- Mayonnaise
- Potato chips
- Salad dressing sauces, seasoning
- Shortening
- Soups

• High Fructose Corn Syrup (Food Uses)
- Bakery products
- Canned fruits
- Canned juices
- Condiments
- Confectionery products
- Frozen desserts
- Jams, jellies and preserves
- Soft drinks
- Wine
- Yeast

• Dextrins (Industrial Uses)
- Adhesives (glues, pastes, mucilages, gums)
- Bookbinding
- Briquettes
- Candles
- Ceramics
- Cord polishing
- Core binder (castings, molds, etc.)
- Cork products
- Crayon and chalk (as a binder)
- Dyes (dry, cake, etc.)
- Envelopes
- Fireworks
- Inks, printing
- Insecticides
- Insulation, fiber glass
- Labels
- Leather
- Linoleum
- Magazines
- Matches (on head and size of box)
- Oil-well drilling
- Ore-separation
- Paints (cold-water, poster, etc.)
- Paper and paper products
- Plastics (molding)
- Plywood
- Sandpaper
- Shoes (counter pastes, polish, etc.)
- Silvering compounds
- Soaps
- Straws (drinking)
- Textiles, sizing, finishing and printing
- Twine (cord, string, etc.)
- Wallboard and wall paper
- Window shades and shade cloth