Corn Was Here
A Rural Texas Road Trip – 5 of 25
There is a lot if corn production in Texas. We were a bit late in the season.
Corn is important for Texas. Corn, sometimes called maize, covers Texas chronology from prehistoric to present times. A close relatives of corn, have been found in caves in the Hueco Mountains; the chapalote corn race existed in pre-Spanish Texas. Spanish explorers of the early 1500s found Indians growing corn in East Texas, and the Spanish carried on corn culture at the Rio Grande valley settlements and the Texas missions. They ate the grain as a basic ingredient in tortillas, tamales, posole, and atole.
Today Texas harvests nearly 2 million acres annually.
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