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An important component of the Nebraska Corn Board’s mission involves education and outreach. Nebraska is the third largest corn producer in the United States – it’s the Cornhusker State, after all – and corn became ingrained in our culture beginning with the first settlers to reach the New World. Today, you can find corn in everything from aspirin to shaving cream, from latex paint to disposable diapers, from animal feed to carpet on the floor. Corn has thousands of uses!
All of this makes it a good idea to learn a bit about this renewable resource we all utilize every day, and this is a good place to begin.
For details on Nebraska’s corn crop and some of the places Nebraska corn is used, you may want to check out the several segments of Nebraska Corn Facts page, the interesting items in the Uses of Corn section and maybe our New Uses brochure (.pdf file).
These pages are a great resource, but we’ve put together some additional pages geared specifically towards Students and Teachers, with links to more information about corn and agriculture in general.
The main focus of the Teachers section is an entire Corn Curriculum – and links to Nebraska Department of Education standards that were developed for this curriculum.
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