Monica Watrous
Monica Watrous is digital media senior editor of Food Business News, sister publication of World Grain. She gathers the latest insights from business leaders, market research analysts, food scientists and other industry experts, and attends numerous trade shows and conferences throughout the year to identify trends in product development. She leads digital strategy for FoodBusinessNews.net with responsibility for driving growth of web traffic and fostering engagement and audience development. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia.
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World's Top 10 Corn Producers
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Corn is the top produced crop in the world. Its high starch content and versatility make it useful in hundreds of products such as food and beverages, biodegradable materials, fuel ethanol and especially animal feed.
The US Department of Agriculture’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) projects the world will produce 1.172 billion tonnes of corn in marketing year 2022-23, of which 183.58 million tonnes will be exported. The WASDE sees individual countries’ domestic feed production using 743.05 million tonnes of corn, and global ending stocks at 304.53 million tonnes.
These are the Top 10 corn producing nations in the world, according to the September WASDE 2022-23 projections.