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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...
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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...
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    The name is in conformity with the Corn Belt of the Midwestern United States, in which much of the nation's corn is grown. Arkansas is the nation's leading...
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    the Manufacturing Belt, Factory Belt, or Steel Belt as distinct from the agricultural Midwestern states forming the so-called Corn Belt and Great Plains...
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    agriculture, with extensive areas forming part of the United States' Corn Belt. Finance and services such as medicine and education are becoming increasingly...
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    fertile belt soon came to be known as "the Corn Belt". Hybrid cropping techniques were widely practiced from the late 1880s, and the hybrid corn varieties...
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    Corn Belt Economy of the United States Rust Belt Snowbelt Southernization, refers to the political and cultural effects of the growth of the Sun Belt...
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  • The Normal CornBelters are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Normal, Illinois, which is part of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. The...
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    The Corn Belt derecho was a progressive derecho which affected a large area of the central United States on June 29, 1998. In the morning, thunderstorms...
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    The American Foursquare (also American Four Square or American 4 Square) is an American house vernacular under the Arts and Crafts style popular from the...
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  • The Corn Belt Conference was a high school athletic conference in the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), based in Central Illinois. The conference...
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  • Corn Belt Power Cooperative is a generation and transmission electric cooperative in northern Iowa. It currently supplies to 12 of its member cooperatives...
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  • Driftless Area 53 Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains 54 Central Corn Belt Plains 55 Eastern Corn Belt Plains 56 Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains...
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    the concrete ears of corn, which stand about 6 feet (1.8 m) tall. The breed of corn represented is known as Corn Belt Dent Corn, a double-cross hybrid...
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    The Corn Palace, commonly advertised as The World's Only Corn Palace and the Mitchell Corn Palace, is a multi-purpose arena/facility located in Mitchell...
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  • Lord of the Barnyard is a novel by Tristan Egolf. Somewhere in Kentucky, perhaps Indiana, we learn via third person narration about the life of John Kaltenbrunner...
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  • means of production: for example, in the United States corn belt, combine harvesters pick the corn, and sprayers spray large amounts of insecticides, herbicides...
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    Iowa (redirect from The Tail Corn State)
    laid the foundation for an agriculture-based economy in the heart of the Corn Belt. In the latter half of the 20th century, Iowa's agricultural economy began...
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    Resources (70%). The Central Iowa Power Cooperative owns 20% and the Corn Belt Power Cooperative owns 10%. In January 2018, NextEra Energy announced...
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  • of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt (1999) Skirt and the Fiddle (2002) Kornwolf (2006) The Reading Eagle Johnson...
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    corn or glutinous corn is a type of field corn characterized by its sticky texture when cooked as a result of larger amounts of amylopectin. The corn...
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    large urban audience who live within driving range. The USDA reported that corn, soybean, sunflower and sugar beet crops saw harvest gains in 2018, but were...
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    The Western Corn Belt Plains is a Level III ecoregion designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in seven U.S. states, though predominantly...
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    Maize, derived from a Native American word for "corn", was so named because it is located within the Corn Belt. The Maize Town Company, led by N. F. Neiderlander...
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    wetter half is a major corn and soybean-producing region known as the Corn Belt, and the western drier half is known as the Wheat Belt because of its high...
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    Lawrence of Chicago, Charming and Delightful Ol' Uncle Lar, and King of the Corn Belt, was a Top 40 music radio disc jockey who was well known for his world-weary...
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    as such, it serves as a typical rite of passage in rural areas of the Corn Belt of the Midwestern United States. For many teens in these areas, it is...
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    the West. It had little support among farmers in the Northeast and the Corn Belt (the eastern Midwest). Free silver was the central issue for Democrats...
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    TIP-ə-kə-NOO) is a gentle, 182-mile-long (293 km) river in the Central Corn Belt Plains ecoregion in northern Indiana. It flows from Crooked Lake in Noble...
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    20th century. It is now present from the southwestern region of the US Corn Belt to the east coast. It was introduced at the end of the 20th century into...
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