FingerLakes Wood Antique Barn With Autumn Harvest Stock Photo

Corn is a great resource for farmers to grow in NY because of our climate and each part of the plant including the stalk, leaves, and corn kernels can but utilized for animal feed leaving very little waste. Field corn is grown primarily to feed livestock but is also used to make human foods like corn tortilla chips or fuel like ethanol. Combining corn is done in late fall when corn plants are no longer growing and when they have lost most of their moisture content.