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The Corn Belt is a region of the Midwestern United States and part of the Southern United States that, since the 1850s, has dominated corn production in the United States. In North America , corn is the common word for maize .
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. Although loess covers almost all of the broad upland flats, ridges, and slopes, minor glacial till outcrops occur near the base of some of the side slopes.
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; Indiana Gas ...
"When you have a heat ridge centered across the corn belt region (like we did the other day), the corn can actually increase levels of humidity and dewpoint temperatures to make the apparent ...
“When you have a heat ridge centered across the corn belt region, the corn can actually emit increased levels of humidity and dew point temperatures,” says Michael Musher, a meteorologist and ...
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 ...
"It has been fast and furious," Brent Johnson, a corn and soybean farmer in Ashland, Illinois, said of harvesting. Weeks of warm and dry weather across the Corn Belt this autumn sped up crop ...
The Corn Belt is a region of the Midwest where corn has, since the 1850s, been the predominant crop, replacing the native tall grasses. The "Corn Belt" region is defined typically to include Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, southern Michigan, western Ohio, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, southern Minnesota, and parts of Missouri. [163]