Corn Belt

Corn Belt
Corn Belt
Agricultural or cultural region of the United States
	2018 production of corn in the United States
Country	United States
States	Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Michigan; Minnesota; Missouri; Nebraska; North Dakota; Ohio; South Dakota; Wisconsin

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 the United States. In North America, corn is the common word for maize. More generally, the concept of the Corn Belt connotes the area of the Midwest dominated by farming and agriculture, though it stretches down into the South as well reaching into Kentucky.^[1]^[2]

^ John Mark Hansen, Gaining access: Congress and the farm lobby, 1919-1981 (1991) p. 138
^ Thomas F. McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller, North America: the historical geography of a changing continent (2001) p, 186

[1] John Mark Hansen, Gaining access: Congress and the farm lobby, 1919-1981 (1991) p. 138

[2] Thomas F. McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller, North America: the historical geography of a changing continent (2001) p, 186

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