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Greater yield due to hybrids, and the modern production practices, have many numerous types of corn available for livestock feed, and food for humans, as well as being used for raw materials for hundreds of industrial products. Worldwide, corn's used mostly as food for humans. In the US however, over half is used to feed our farm animals.
Since corn lacks protein, health problems can occur from a diet of strictly, or mostly, corn. However, high-oil, waxy, and modified protein corns are being developed, and are expected to help these problems. The biggest industrial corn users are feed manufacturers, millers, distillers, and fermenters. The corn oil is taken from the kernal, while the sugars, syrups, and starch are taken from the endosperm.