Corn Belt
Iowa's agricultural region
The Corn Belt is a region of the American Midwest—primarily Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and parts of neighboring states—where corn has been the dominant crop since the mid-19th century.
The term evokes both agricultural productivity and a particular cultural identity associated with rural heartland America.
Property values in the Corn Belt have risen steadily. (Lowercase corn belt refers generically to any corn-growing region.)
- breadbasketMajor grain-producing region
- MidwestNorth-central American region
- IowaGreat Plains farming state
- IllinoisMidwestern state, sixth-largest
- ethanolDrinkable volatile spirit
agribusiness · Indiana · heartland · Nebraska · Great Plains · Ohio · Kansas · grain elevators · Missouri · flyover country · flat as a pancake · Wisconsin · South Dakota · rural America · commodity prices · family farms · prairie · commodity markets
- American Farmingfamily farms, wheat, hay, farmsteads, beef cattle
- American RegionsMidwest, Southwest, Northwest, Deep South, Pacific Northwest
- MidwestIndiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota
- North American regionsstates, provinces, territories, regions, northeast
- Farming RegionsGreat Plains, Punjab, Ukraine, breadbasket, Saskatchewan
- Marshall CountyMarshalltown, Melbourne, Albion, Rhodes, Ferguson
Corn BeltEast Coast
America's eastern shoreline
West Coast · coastal elite · New England · Pacific Northwest · Silicon Valley
Corn BeltRocky Mountains
Western North American cordillera
Appalachian Mountains · coastal regions · urban sprawl · metropolitan area · tundra
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