1.   Tennessee whisky is usually made from corn, but any grain may be used.

2.   The highest quality grain is used as seed.

3.   Africans have been making beer for thousands of years, using the grains of indigenous grasses, notably sorghum, and sometimes roots.

4.   Almost any grain can be used for a pilaf.

5.   Companies that use grain are warning investors the profit squeeze will continue until at least the beginning of the corn harvest this fall.

6.   Mass-market beers usually use cheaper grains.

7.   These grains are used in the processing of snacks, breakfast cereal, vegetable oil and countless other products.

8.   Though sorghum is used for livestock feed in this country, the grain is used for human consumption in much of Africa.

9.   Tight supplies have driven grain prices to their highest in history, hurting margins for companies that use grain.

10.   An earlier czar, Boris Godunov, prohibited alcohol production during hungry times to ensure that grain was used for baking bread.