We had a question from customer care today regarding how we got the name Xero. I often tell this story during events, but may as well tell the world. Firstly we really wanted a great name. If we are going to be a global player we wanted a name that stood next to SAP, IBM etc.tâs unlikely youâll be able to just get a great domain name. Most are taken and parked so you have to negotiate for them. Dot thought of Zero, but when we approached the domain holder the numbers they wanted were ridiculous. She then thought of Xero.
Most of the corn grown in the United States is produced in the Corn Belt, which includes Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Missouri and South Dakota. Within the USA, Michigan sits at the NE extremities of the corn belt. The map below shows where the corn belt lies.
Corn Use in Illinois Animal Feed 7% Exports 53% Ethanol 25% Processing 15% Where Does All That Corn Go? Illinois farmers rank second in the country in corn production. In 2009, Illinois farmers planted 12,000,000 acres of field corn, which produced over 2 billion bushels of little golden kernels. One bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds, meaning Illinois farmers hauled over 112 billion pounds of corn out of their fields. Now that is a lot of corn! Where does it all go? Field corn is not the type of corn you eat on the cob. It