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This map seems correct about each state's "lean" but obviously they don't literally follow state lines:
My guess is roughly:
Dairy belt: Vermont, New Hampshire, Upstate NY, northern bits of Pennsylvania and Ohio, lower Michigan, most of Wisconsin and into eastern Minnesota, as well as southern Ontario and Quebec
Corn belt is basically western Ohio to eastern Nebraska, running a bit into Michigan, Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Minnesota seems to be where the dairy, corn and wheat belts meet.
This map seems correct about each state's "lean" but obviously they don't literally follow state lines:
My guess is roughly:
Dairy belt: Vermont, New Hampshire, Upstate NY, northern bits of Pennsylvania and Ohio, lower Michigan, most of Wisconsin and into eastern Minnesota, as well as southern Ontario and Quebec
Corn belt is basically western Ohio to eastern Nebraska, running a bit into Michigan, Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Minnesota seems to be where the dairy, corn and wheat belts meet.
You can include all of Pennsylvania in the dairy belt, since it ranks in the top 10 for both milk and cheese production, and there are several dairy farms across the countryside near Pittsburgh, Altoona, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading and Allentown.
Minnesota seems to be where the dairy, corn and wheat belts meet.
That's a very apt assessment as Minnesota is also where three of North America's major biomes meet: prairie grasslands (Great Plains), deciduous forest (Big Woods), and boreal forest (North Woods).
LOL. I kind of feel with some of these threads, like I'm sitting through geography classes in elementary school. I'm just surprised that people care enough to chime in about US agriculture. We learned this in third grade!
Pennsylvania has a Milk Board that sets it's prices. No joke. Dairy products cost twice as much here as Ohio. A gallon of milk is $2 less across the border. So sales amounts can be deceiving. It would be best to research production totals to get an idea of which state is on top.
There is more than corn, wheat, or dairy in each of these states. For instance, Wisconsin is the nation's top cranberry producer, and Massachusetts is second. As long as we're learning facts here, let's expand the boundaries.
Florida should be labeled as orange since that is the main crop of the state. I would also argue Nebraska to be a corn producing state.
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