Grain Oil and Specialty Field-Crop Production

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Grain Oil and Specialty Field-Crop Production
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Field Crops

• 450 million acres in the U.S. (20 of U.S. land)

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Types of Field Crops

• Grain
• Oilseed
• Specialty Crops
• Seed Crops

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GRAIN CROPS (7 major grain crops in the U.S.)

• CORN MOST IMPORTANT!!!!!
• Wheat most important in the world)
• Barley
• Oats
• Rye
• Rice
• Sorgham

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Corn

• 40 of corn in the U.S. in grown in the Corn Belt
  (midwestern U.S.)
• Iowa
• Illinois
• Nebraska
• Minnesota
• Indiana
• Ohio

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Corn (contd)

• Originated in Central America
• Less than 10 is used for human consumption.
• The rest is for feeding livestock, fuel, alcohol
  production
• Major classifications of corn include, sweet
  corn, flour (or soft) corn, flint corn, and dent
  corn. Most of U.S. corn is Dent Corn.

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Wheat

• Most Important crop in the world
• Second most abundant in the U.S.
• Mostly grown for human consumption
• States that produce
• Kansas
• Oklahoma
• Texas
• Montana

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Barley

• Used mostly for livestock feed
• Also used for malting( production of beer and
  other alcoholic beverages)

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Oats

• Feeding Livestock
• 5 used for human consumption
• Important in plasitics, pesticides, preservatives.

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Rye

• Grown in almost Every State
• Least Economically important
• Used as a
• forage crop (animal feed)
• COVER CROP. To prevent erosion.
• Green Manure Crop plowed into the soil to give
  nutrients back.

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Rice

• Most important grain crop for human consumption
  in the world.
• Most grown in this country in for human
  consumption
• It is the only crop that can be grown in standing
  water

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Sorghum

• Mostly used for livestock feed
• Used for sugars and syrups.
• Also used to make brooms.

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Oil Seed Crops

• Crops that are grown for the production of oil
  from their seeds.
• Soybeans Peanuts
• Corn Cottonseed
• Canola Safflower
• Flax Sunflower

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SOYBEANS

• Soybean is an important legume (has nitrogen from
  the soil)
• Oil
• Grain. After oil is extracted from the soybean,
  soybean meal is left over. This is important
  source of protein for animal feed.

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Peanuts

• The peanut is a pea rather than a nut.