About KYCA

Who is KY Corn

Our vision is to sustainably feed and fuel a growing world.

KyCGA

Our organization empowers corn farmers to elevate their voice in the governmental process.

KY Corn Promotion Council

The Kentucky Corn Promotion Council collects and administers a .0025 checkoff, which is remitted on corn sold throughout Kentucky.

Annual Report

Review the latest Annual Report and explore highlights from 2023.

Checkoff at work

Overview

The Kentucky corn checkoff makes important market development, promotion, education, and research efforts possible.

Markets

We serve a variety of markets including, Ethanol, Bourbon & Distilled Spritis, Trade, and Livestock Feed to name a few.

Research

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Education

Kentucky Corn supports multiple programs about agriculture literacy and improving agriculture educations.

Sustainability

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Policy

Action Alerts

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Grassroots

For us, grassroots means that corn farmer members are the organization. Our organization is governed by a board of directors who are elected by farmer members.

Resources

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FAQs

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Programs

Read more about all programs offered

Corn farmer checkoff funds go to a variety of annual programming to ensure a strong and vibrant Kentucky agriculture industry and to strengthen the efforts of other organizations toward their missions to enhance the future of our industry.

Core Farmer Scholarship

The CORE Farmer Program is a two-year curriculum designed to deliver classroom-style instructional learning, expand participants’ peer network and gain perspectives from other business endeavors.

News & Resources

Blog, Press, Updates

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Corn Facts

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Agriculture Education

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Classroom Resources

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Livestock Feed

 

Livestock feed

Corn farmers and livestock producers have enjoyed a mutually beneficial and synergistic relationship since the very beginnings of animal agriculture in the United States. Livestock and poultry producers have come to rely on the corn industry as a top source of high quality, nutritional feed. In turn, corn growers have long depended on the livestock and poultry sector as its number one customer.

In Kentucky, about 70 million bushels of corn produced are fed to our livestock. Poultry alone consume 25-30% of the corn produced in the Commonwealth. Nationally, about 40 percent of total corn production goes to feed livestock annually. This equates to more than 5 billion bushels per year feeding livestock and poultry.

While the increase in ethanol and bourbon production shows the feed “piece of the pie” growing slightly smaller each year when looking at U.S. corn usage by segment, corn farmers are still supplying the same 5+ billion bushels to the livestock industry. We are just growing more corn, and the increased supply is going into one of Kentucky’s signature industries – bourbon and into the ethanol industry, reducing our dependence on foreign oil.

The added benefit of both bourbon and the ethanol production to the livestock industry is that distillers grains and feed grade corn oil are produced from the dry mill distillation process, which provides additional, less-expensive, higher-protein and fat feed sources for livestock producers.

Increasing Corn Value through Red Meat Exports

 

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Beef and pork exports added 39 cents per bushel to the price of corn in 2018, according to the latest report by World Perspectives, Inc. (WPI). Over the past three years, WPI has analyzed the impact of U.S. red meat exports on the value of domestic feedgrains and oilseeds


Livestock News