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Top States - Corn for Grain (5 yr. average)

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

• Where does Texas Corn end up?
  • 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