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Borscht Belt, a region of Jewish resorts in the Catskill Mountains; Corn Belt, midwestern and southern states where corn is the primary crop; Cotton Belt, southern states where cotton is or was a primary crop; Fruit Belt, an area where fruit growing is prominent, specially oranges at the state of Florida and grapes at California
The Dutch Belted or Dutch Belt is an American breed of dairy cattle. It derives from the Lakenvelder of Germany and the Netherlands, of which examples were imported to the United States from 1838. [4]: 171 [5]: 96 [6] It became an important dairy breed in the early twentieth century, but could not compete with the Holstein-Friesian.
The origin of the white belt is unknown; it is thought to have resulted from some cross-breeding with the Dutch Lakenvelder in the seventeenth century. [4]: 129 From 1852, both Aberdeen Angus and Galloways could be registered in a herd-book for polled cattle. A separate Galloway herd-book was established in 1878.
In Stearns County, the heart of Minnesota's dairy belt, a separate venture that aimed to build large digesters, producing biogas from methane, folded after the Danish company's parent, petroleum ...
Most of what is now known as the Palm Springs area was once part of the expansive White Belt Dairy, a dairy farm owned by Dr. John G. DuPuis that was destroyed by the Great Miami Tornado on April ...
The Sun Belt is a region of the United States generally considered stretching across the Southeast and Southwest. Another rough definition of the region is the area south of the 36th parallel .
Counties in southeastern Minnesota's dairy belt — Fillmore (9), Goodhue (6) and Houston (5) — also saw significant losses. A few counties in Minnesota saw small increases in the number of ...
Wheatbelt or wheat belt may refer to: Wheatbelt (Australia), areas of Australia where wheat has been produced Wheatbelt (Western Australia), one of the nine regions of Western Australia; Wheat belt (North America), the part of North America where wheat is the primary crop