Former Agriculture Commissioner Jim Graham (along with a North Carolina-shaped piece of cornbread) celebrates Corn Bread Week, Dec. 13-19, 1965, with several representatives from the N.C. corn industry.
While field corn is produced primarily for animal feed and industrial uses such as ethanol and cooking oil, sweet corn is produced for human consumption. One favorite end result is corn bread, celebrated above. North Carolina ranks 11th in the nation in production of sweet corn.