Format:
IX, 254 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
ISBN:
0253328322
Series Statement:
Midwestern history and culture
Content:
Stretching from the Rockies to the Appalachians, the Corn Belt is America's heartland. Making the Corn Belt traces the geographical and agricultural evolution of this region, whose agriculture is based on the tradition of feeding corn to meat animals, especially beef cattle and hogs. The use of corn as a feed grain emerged in the westward movement of Euro-American farming people from the Upland South to the Ohio Valley
Content:
In the five islands of fertile land west of the Appalachians - the Nashville Basin, Pennyroyal Plateau, Bluegrass, Miami Valley, and Virginia Military District - corn emerged as the best crop to feed livestock. Thus was the Corn Belt born
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
USA Mittlerer Westen
;
Agrargeografie
;
Geschichte
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