The world doesn’t know a diet without corn. Corn is grown in all 50 states — primarily across the Corn Belt of the US— a region of the Midwest with ideal maize-growing conditions that includes Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and South Dakota, and more than 90 million acres of land are dedicated to planting and harvesting the grain.

It’s also produced on every continent except for Antartica, though the United States is in fact the world’s largest producer and even exports