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Bushels come from harvesting planted seeds.
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More corn was planted in the US in 1928 than in 1998.1928 - 100,399,000 acres - avg. yield 26.3 bushels per acre1998 - 80,165,000 acres - avg. yield 134.4 bushels per acre
Sorghum, which has competed with corn as a primary livestock feed, yielded only 50.7 bushels per acres in 2002, compared to 72.6 bushels per acre in 1992. Growers planted 9.5 million acres in 2002, compared to the 13,177 acres planted a decade earlier.
The average bushel yield per acre of corn in the United States is 158.8 bushels. One hundred acres of corn would yield 15880 bushels.
U.S. average yield for 2010 was 46.6 bushels (of 60 pounds each) per acre. Canada and Brazil average yield was the same or very close. The top record for 2010 was 160 bushels per acre on a special irrigated field, the same farmer managed an average of 100 bushels per acre on the whole 300 acres of soybean he planted.
Wheat farms in the United States produced an estimated 2.9 billion bushels of grain in the 2001-02 season, harvesting approximately 53 million acres with an average yield of 42 bushels per acre.
Iowa farmers planted 13.6 million acres of corn in 2009, yielding 2.42 billion bushels of grain and 4.84 million tons of corn silage.
If it was a standard "open pollinated" corn (an "old style" corn), yes - it will reproduce new corn plants and ears exactly like the one you planted the kernels from. If it is a newer hybrid corn (and 98% of all corns grown are hybrid corns) then no, it can't. It will create corn plants, that will grow ears, but the ears will revert to one or another of the parents mated to produce the hybrid - maybe with good results, maybe with very disappointing results.
an ear of corn does have living parts. The green husk for example. But the corn kernels themselves are composed of endosperm and seed nuclei and don't begin life until they are planted and sprout.
It is a living thing because the embryos of those kernels on that ear of corn, even though they have reached senescence when harvested, are still able to grow (or germinate) when planted in the soil to make new corn plants.
There is no difference. You can't tell if corn is genetically engineered by any method other than DNA testing, unless you happen to know what was planted to begin with.