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* [[Canadian prairies]], Canada's 'Breadbasket' |
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* [[Palliser's Triangle]], Canada's semi-arid grain production region. |
* [[Palliser's Triangle]], Canada's semi-arid grain production region. |
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* J. L. Anderson. ''Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Tech�nology, and Environment, 1945-1972'' (2009) 238 pp. ISBN 978-0-87580-392-0 |
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Grain Belt
The Grain Belt is an informal name for a United States region composed of the prairie-region states across the Midwest.
This region produces a substantial amount of the world's grain and soybeans.
The Grain Belt area includes most if not all of
The Grain Belt includes part of
Corn Belt
The Corn Belt is a region of the Midwestern United States where corn has traditionally been the predominant crop. Geographic definitions of the region vary. Typically it is defined to include Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, and Missouri.[2] As of 2008, the top four corn-producing states were Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Minnesota, together accounting for more than half of the corn grown in the United States.[3] The Corn Belt also sometimes is defined to include parts of South Dakota, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Kentucky.[1] The region is characterized by relatively level land and deep, fertile soils, high in organic matter.[2]
The map depicts the current location of the Corn Belt as per USDA production information. The historic definition starts in central Indiana and Illinois (but not the extreme northern and southern areas of those states; this roughly corresponds to the "prairie peninsula"), through Iowa, with a fringe of Nebraska.
See also
- The Breadbasket
- Midwest
- Black Earth Provinces (Russian language equivalent of Grain Belt)
Canadian grain production regions
- Canadian prairies, Canada's 'Breadbasket'
- Palliser's Triangle, Canada's semi-arid grain production region.
Further reading
- J. L. Anderson. Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Tech�nology, and Environment, 1945-1972 (2009) 238 pp. ISBN 978-0-87580-392-0
References
- ^ a b http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2007/Online_Highlights/Ag_Atlas_Maps/Crops_and_Plants/Field_Crops_Harvested/07-M163.asp
- ^ a b Corn Belt, Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- ^ USDA State Factsheets
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