Farmers celebrate corn crop

The field corn in southwestern Illinois – these cornfields border Trenton, Ill. – is ready to harvest, and our farmers have begun bringin' home the corn. This year's crop is as exceptional as last year's drought-stricken crop was awful. "We now know how good it can get and how bad it can get in just two years," Jerry Gulke, who farms near Rockford, Ill., told The Associated Press. Illinois farmers planted more than 12 million acres of corn this year, according to a recent report by Dean Reynolds of CBS News. That's a lot of livestock fodder, corn oil, corn meal, tortillas, hominy, grits, corn starch,
corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, and don't forget corn whiskey. It's a-maize-ing!