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The production of corn (Zea mays mays, also known as "maize") plays a major role in the economy of the United States. The US is the largest corn producer in the world, with 96,000,000 acres (39,000,000 ha) of land reserved for corn production. Corn growth is dominated by west/north central Iowa and east central Illinois. Approximately 13% of ...
The harvest of the record-large soybean crop was 67% complete by Oct. 13, the fastest pace since 2012, when a major drought limited production. Jeff O'Connor, who grows corn and soybeans near ...
As of 2008, the top four corn-producing states were Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Minnesota, accounting for more than half of the corn growth in the U.S. [7] More recently, the Corn Belt was mapped at the county level using the Land use and Agricultural Management Practices web-Service (LAMPS), [ 8 ] along with animated maps of changes in time ...
King Corn is a documentary film released in October 2007 that follows college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis (directed by Aaron Woolf) as they move from Boston to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn. Coincidentally, the trip also takes them back to where both of their families have roots.
In Iowa and across Corn Belt, farmers give up on price improvement, sell off 2023 grain. Gannett. Tom Polansek and P.J. Huffstutter. August 7, 2024 at 6:46 AM.
Midwestern states including Illinois and Iowa, where most of the U.S. corn production occurs, recorded heat index values in the triple digits. The searing heat put millions of people under ...
The Northwest Iowa Loess Prairies ecoregion is a gently undulating plain with a moderate to thick layer of loess. It is the highest and driest region of the Western Corn Belt Plains, as it rises to meet the Northern Glaciated Plains (46) of the Dakotas.
A big loss in the top growing state could eat into a record-large national corn forecast at a time when China is buying more of the grain. Derecho, drought impacts on Iowa corn crop seen in crop ...