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English: Sectional Map of Texas Traversed by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, Showing the crops adapted to each section, with the elevation and annual rainfall.
List of Farm to Market Roads in Texas (3300–3399) List of Farm to Market Roads in Texas (3400–3499) List of Farm to Market Roads in Texas (3500–9999) 0–9.
The name is in conformity with the Corn Belt of the Midwestern United States, in which much of the nation's corn is grown. Arkansas is the nation's leading rice producer, followed by California (not part of the Rice Belt), Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Missouri (bordering on, but not part of, the Rice Belt).
By 1957, the system had grown to over 31,000 miles (50,000 km). [15] In 1962, the Texas legislature adjusted the appropriated funding amount to $23 million annually (equivalent to $177 million in 2023 [4]), through federal fund matching, and expanded the farm-to-market system from 35,000 to 50,000 miles (56,000 to 80,000 km).
Grapes are a common crop in some parts of Texas. [10] [11] Pierce's Disease is a common problem in the East and South. [10] From 1970 to 1996, PD was unknown outside of the southern part of the state. Though thought to be impossible, in 1996 suddenly many vineyards were heavily hit in north central Texas and some were wiped out completely.
By 1906 he owned and 225,000 acres in Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri, renting it out to 1200 tenants. [10] On account of new agricultural technology developments between 1860 and 1970, the Corn Belt went from producing mixed crops and livestock into becoming an area focused strictly on wheat-cash planting.
Kentucky is an agricultural producer in the United States. Value of agricultural products was $5 billion in 2012, of which slightly less than half was crops. [1] Crops grown in the state include corn, soybeans, hay, wheat and tobacco. [2] Historically, hemp has been a cash crop in the state (see hemp in Kentucky).
By 1903, Texas cultivated 234,000 acres of rice. This was second to only Louisiana in rice cultivation which produced 376,000 acres of this crop. At this point, the two states accounted for 99 percent of the rice grown in the United States. Farmers in Arkansas, during 1904, began that state's moved toward major efforts in rice growing.