Corn Belt

Corn Belt is a name for a region in the Midwestern United States, primarily in the traditional maize ( in American Engl: corn ) was cultivated. Primarily this Corn Belt includes the territory of the states of Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio, which are responsible for about 50 percent of the total maize production in the USA. Also, parts include the states of South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri and Kentucky to the Corn Belt.

In the meantime, has become of the Corn Belt, a corn - soy pork beef fattening belt. New varieties of hybrid maize allow the extension of cultivation to the north, while on the other hand, the state restricts the Maisbau. The soybean, with high yields per hectare and its high protein content is an ideal fodder, partially takes the place of the corn. For traditional pig is added cattle fattening, in the north and dairy farming. Recently, however, the cattle fattening returns due to competition from the large farms in the Great Plains and California.

For the partially with the Corn Belt overlapping wheat - soybean - growing region is also the term Grain Belt has naturalized.

In the North American Belt system, the Corn Belt is located between the Dairy Belt in the north and the Cotton Belt in the south.