The Midwest drought has sent corn prices skyrocketing, while ruining a year's worth of work for corn farmers in America's heartland.

To show how dependent Americans are on corn, we put together 11 insane facts about the crop and its place in the U.S. economy.

As you'll see, corn is astonishingly ubiquitous, and has only become more so as sugar cane has been replaced by high fructose corn syrup.