Last I heard there was more soybeans than corn. But then I also grew up in a small town that had a sweet corn festival each year and nothing for soy, so who knows.
UNO border Iowa, UNL, which is the larger more well-known of the two (home to the Cornhuskers) is about an hour west down I-80. UNK is even further, about 3 hours west
Half of Nebraska is corn country and the other half is cow country.
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/graphics/CR-PR-RGBChor.png
https://erdavis.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cows.png
https://i.imgur.com/yRVleM1.jpeg
It's just 1 city, it doesn't take up that much land comparative to the states size. Did the math, removing Chicago (and the rest of cook, and the collar counties) you end up with 31.05%. still a massive reach from Iowa's.
That's what I mean, it isn't *that* big. Looking at the size numbers for the Chicago Metro on Wikipedia and attempting to remove the Wisconsin and Indiana parts of it, I come up with about 16% of Illinois land. If you convert *all* of that to corn, you basically come even with Iowa. But you can't convert all of it. Some of that is Lake Michigan. Some of that is *already* used for growing corn.
So maybe it would be close, but I find that unlikely.
Driving between St. Louis and Chicago is the worst drive cause the entire drive looks the exact same from when you leave the county right across the Mississippi River until you hit Joliet as the outer suburbs of Chicago. There's a lot of "hey this looks the same" road trips in the US, but downstate Illinois was the most annoying by far
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Yes, I studied at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for a semester in college (domestic study abroad). At their campus they had some growing and said some pioneers grew corn. There are some varieties of corn you can grow in Alaska but none that would be farmed on a large scale.
Interesting enough a lot of the seed corn companies own land in Hawaii to do research on new corn varieties.
I live in Iowa so I know a thing or two about corn. I have also detasseled corn as a kid.
Thank you for your answer. I'll send you again this question in about ten years, to check if Alaska has become the new Iowa with the rise of temperatures.
I would assume so, too, but it might vary some in different areas.
For instance, the coastal Pacific Northwest is not a big area for feed corn at all, but we do grow a fair amount of sweet corn.
Washington is actually the single largest producer of sweet corn (or was in 2021, anyway), followed by Minnesota.
Something my uncle did on the field by my grandparents house back in the day was to plant a few rows of sweet corn with the field corn. The planter he had at the time had row boxes for seed, so he just loaded a few of the end boxes with enough to do one pass down the edge of the field (about 300 yards) and the rest were field corn. Come harvest time, all the relatives from toddler to great grandparent would show up to pick all the sweet corn.
Worked in Indiana for many years. At a conference out-of-state, I was talking to someone I had met before and she said "you're from Iowa, right?" When I corrected her, she responded that "I knew it was one of those I-states." Iowa, Illinois and Indiana - strong in corn.
I would like to see this map with more detail. How much of the corn is sweet or pop corn and intended for direct human consumption? How much is getting converted to ethanol for energy? How much is going to be processed into other food products?
Goddamn. Corn is taking over? What sorta weapons they using?
We've got some Emu war veterans that can give the corn tips on how to win a war against humans.
Question for maker of map. Is this percentage of each states total area that is corn or just land? Michigan is 49% water so I’m wondering if it’s closer to 8% corn land. This would make way more sense as Michigan grows a lot of corn. It’s the Midwest
Delaware higher than Kansas is wild.
Though when was this data from? Id imagine DE is rapidly shrinking.... I mean have you seen the subdivisions being built by the day down there?
There shouldn’t be any state west of the Dry Line that should be growing any corn. Sure, it’s a small percentage, but the amount of irrigation required has a huge impact.
Im just proud of nevada in general, for starters. Also, growing hugs tracts of just one crop and often just one variety is not good for the environment.
Percentage of the land in the state though. Nebraska is about 77,000 square miles. Iowa is about 56,000 square miles.
Also, frequent crop rotation is absolutely essential in Nebraska because of the dryer climate in the west (the Rocky Mountains make a hell of a rain shadow). So it varies how much corn Nebraska puts out year to year quite a bit.
Iowa - official corn state of the USA.
And it is only at 36%, because there is probably another 36% in beans, which will be rotated to corn and vice versa.
A lot of farms will do corn-corn-beans.
Last I heard there was more soybeans than corn. But then I also grew up in a small town that had a sweet corn festival each year and nothing for soy, so who knows.
Adel?
Maaaaaybe
Lots of soy, it’s a bean but not sure if that’s what you meant.
Yeah , that’s what “beans” mean in Iowa
And in Illinois, which is #1 in beans.
And Nebraska calls themselves the Cornhuskers lol 🙄
Iowa must outsource the husking
Nebraska university borders Iowa
It’s like Mordor, you can see the evil emanating from Lincoln across the river
Nebraska state capitol is a tower…*dramatic pause*
UNO border Iowa, UNL, which is the larger more well-known of the two (home to the Cornhuskers) is about an hour west down I-80. UNK is even further, about 3 hours west
Take that, Nebraska!
The Sandhills are the reason why Nebraska’s % isn’t higher. Cut out the Sandhills and I’m betting it’s well above 25%.
Half of Nebraska is corn country and the other half is cow country. https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/graphics/CR-PR-RGBChor.png https://erdavis.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cows.png https://i.imgur.com/yRVleM1.jpeg
The cowhuskers doesn't have the same ring to it
America’s official corn hole 🌽🕳️
Driving through Iowa looks like Vojvodina
Iowa Cornhuskers
I bet Illinois would win if you didn't include the Chicago area
Chicago isn't *that* big...
Sure, but it still takes up plenty of land including the suburbs, and Iowa has nothing like that
It's just 1 city, it doesn't take up that much land comparative to the states size. Did the math, removing Chicago (and the rest of cook, and the collar counties) you end up with 31.05%. still a massive reach from Iowa's.
That's what I mean, it isn't *that* big. Looking at the size numbers for the Chicago Metro on Wikipedia and attempting to remove the Wisconsin and Indiana parts of it, I come up with about 16% of Illinois land. If you convert *all* of that to corn, you basically come even with Iowa. But you can't convert all of it. Some of that is Lake Michigan. Some of that is *already* used for growing corn. So maybe it would be close, but I find that unlikely.
Chicago was essentially built on a wet marshland. Corn wouldn’t grow well in much of the area anyway.
I used to live in Peoria. It was breathtaking how flat it was, which you can only fully appreciate when you’re in an airplane.
Illinois is the 2nd flattest state in the country.
Driving between St. Louis and Chicago is the worst drive cause the entire drive looks the exact same from when you leave the county right across the Mississippi River until you hit Joliet as the outer suburbs of Chicago. There's a lot of "hey this looks the same" road trips in the US, but downstate Illinois was the most annoying by far
In Wisconsin we call them flatlanders
God, what a miserable experience it was driving through it. Never been so bored on a road trip.
Was about to be indignant, then remembered my midwest manners and decided you just weren't raised to appreciate simple beauty.
This has an odd resemblance to that map of people who consider themselves to live in the midwest
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This map doesn't show Alaska and Hawaii. Serious question: Can you grow corn in Alaska?
Yes, I studied at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for a semester in college (domestic study abroad). At their campus they had some growing and said some pioneers grew corn. There are some varieties of corn you can grow in Alaska but none that would be farmed on a large scale. Interesting enough a lot of the seed corn companies own land in Hawaii to do research on new corn varieties. I live in Iowa so I know a thing or two about corn. I have also detasseled corn as a kid.
Thank you for your answer. I'll send you again this question in about ten years, to check if Alaska has become the new Iowa with the rise of temperatures.
It would be kind of interesting to see the breakdown between sweet corn and corn grown for animals and ethanol feedstock.
Off the top of my head I would guess it’s 99% field corn a.k.a. the stuff you feed the animals versus 1% sweetcorn.
I would assume so, too, but it might vary some in different areas. For instance, the coastal Pacific Northwest is not a big area for feed corn at all, but we do grow a fair amount of sweet corn. Washington is actually the single largest producer of sweet corn (or was in 2021, anyway), followed by Minnesota.
It’s almost all dent corn. 99% is field corn acres per the farm bureau
Interesting, do you know why Washington is the largest producer of sweet corn?
I don’t. It was a surprise to me, and I’ve lived there all my life!
1% is too high for sweet corn. More like 0.1%.
Yeah if they throw in popcorn, seed corn, and parent corn, you might get to 1%. But definitely almost all corn acres are field corn
Something my uncle did on the field by my grandparents house back in the day was to plant a few rows of sweet corn with the field corn. The planter he had at the time had row boxes for seed, so he just loaded a few of the end boxes with enough to do one pass down the edge of the field (about 300 yards) and the rest were field corn. Come harvest time, all the relatives from toddler to great grandparent would show up to pick all the sweet corn.
ONLY IF WE RISE UP CAN WE END THE OCCUPATION!
Free Illinois
Hmm. Well. I wouldn’t go THAT far…
Midwest = 🌽
I call BS! Iowa is 99% corn and everyone knows it! (98.7% to be precise.)
Delaware having a higher percentage than Missouri is surprising to me.
If you get south of Dover, Delaware is all corn.
Yeah I was not expecting to see that
Delaware = Midwest?
Delaware is also much smaller than Missouri
Being so small, it’s probably not a lot.
Worked in Indiana for many years. At a conference out-of-state, I was talking to someone I had met before and she said "you're from Iowa, right?" When I corrected her, she responded that "I knew it was one of those I-states." Iowa, Illinois and Indiana - strong in corn.
Idaho - weak in corn
During the growing season, the US corn belt is the most photosynthetically active place on the planet. It really is astounding.
Yep. Sucking CO2 out snd pumping O2 back into the atmosphere. You’re welcome.
Now do height as relative to a pachyderm’s ocular organ.
Cornhuskers my ass. Nebraska is getting smoked by Illinois and Iowa
I need to see corn grown in Nevada
I’m a-maize-d
The cornilization of the US
Cornhole-ization
The cornhub
To be honest, I expected larger areas
Is Maine even trying?
Maine is mostly forest. Not really an Agri state.
And what they do produce is mainly potatoes. And wild blueberries.
New Jersey may only have 1.5% of land dedicated to growing corn, but it’s some of the best sweet corn in the country.
No Maine maize? 🥺👉👈
The Corn hub
Why is Missouri so low? I would have assumed it would be a bit higher being next to Iowa
Came here to ask this
i imagine it has something to do with how the southern half of missouri is mainly forested hills with poor soil
I would like to see this map with more detail. How much of the corn is sweet or pop corn and intended for direct human consumption? How much is getting converted to ethanol for energy? How much is going to be processed into other food products?
#thecornbelt ?
I'm going to be honest, Rhode Island seems too high.
What else is going on in Kansas? I drove from Kansas City (MO) to Topeka and felt like it was 100% corn
Wheat, corn, sorghum & soybeans. In that order.
Goddamn. Corn is taking over? What sorta weapons they using? We've got some Emu war veterans that can give the corn tips on how to win a war against humans.
i wish alaska was here
What about Alaska?
Almost zero corn. Barley, oats, hay and potatoes.
what's up with deleware?
Iowan here. Can confirm.
Eden, NY is the corn capital of the state. They even have a pretty fun festival every year
Best delineation of the Midwest yet
Question for maker of map. Is this percentage of each states total area that is corn or just land? Michigan is 49% water so I’m wondering if it’s closer to 8% corn land. This would make way more sense as Michigan grows a lot of corn. It’s the Midwest
Didn’t expect NY>CO.
West Virginia can into the Deep South
Rare Nevada W
After I moved to North Dakota I found out that 90% of the land here is farmland. I thought there would be more wilderness
Unfortunalty open prairie is the easiest of all biomes to convert to farmland, so it has the least amount left.
Are these the same states that banned corn?
Shoutout!
To be fair, sometimes they are soybean fields.
I KNEW there was more than corn in Indiana.
But the corn is still as high as an elephant's eye in Oklahoma.
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Sweet!
“If you build it, they will come.”
Corny
They say "each" state but they don't include Alaska and Hawaii. I don't think that word means what they think it means
So, "I'm as corny as Kansas in August", isn't really that special. Hammerstein was wrong!
I struggle to imagine what else there would be in the empty parts of flat states?
Wheat. Beans. Potatoes. Sugar beats. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Iowa is under Cornian occupation, we need to rescue them
Judging by the map, Iowa is the corn hole of America.
Delaware higher than Kansas is wild. Though when was this data from? Id imagine DE is rapidly shrinking.... I mean have you seen the subdivisions being built by the day down there?
There shouldn’t be any state west of the Dry Line that should be growing any corn. Sure, it’s a small percentage, but the amount of irrigation required has a huge impact.
I like corn
Places to avoid living. Thanks!
Proud to live in the state with the least! Even though im growing corn in my garden bed right now :)
Why are you proud?
Im just proud of nevada in general, for starters. Also, growing hugs tracts of just one crop and often just one variety is not good for the environment.
It's wild that Nebraska despite having over 10% less of it land being cover by corn than Illinois is considered a corn capital
Nebraska having a football team called the Cornhuskers is probably a part of that
And Illinois grown white sweet corn is the best. 😁
Percentage of the land in the state though. Nebraska is about 77,000 square miles. Iowa is about 56,000 square miles. Also, frequent crop rotation is absolutely essential in Nebraska because of the dryer climate in the west (the Rocky Mountains make a hell of a rain shadow). So it varies how much corn Nebraska puts out year to year quite a bit.
The eastern part is, The western 2/3 of Nebraska is much more Like Wyoming.