Talk:Corn Belt

Corn belt== The Grain Belt and Corn Belt, I believe, are usually considered together. I think that we can combine the two under the usual title of Grain Belt. Though I may be wrong, this is based on what I've found terminology-wise over years of study of American history. -- 67.161.115.23 13:26, 25 May 2005

I've nominated Corn Belt and Grain Belt for merging into Grain Belt. If anybody else agrees, then make it so. --Damian Yerrick 04:30, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

"Corn Belt" is better title

Experts use the term "Corn belt" far more often than "grain Belt" so we should change the title. Rjensen (talk) 08:16, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

without objection I changed the title.Rjensen (talk) 10:43, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

In October of 1976 the US was making $2,080,613,747 on exports of corn, and spending $826,653,415 on imports with a trade balance of $1,253,960,332. Presently, the US is making $9,755,651,487 on exports and spending $7,815,758,202 on imports with a $1,939,893,285 trade balance. With this data you can conclude that the expenditure of corn by the US over the past 35 years far exceeds how much we should. This increased expenditure causes negative shifts in the agricultural market as well as our overall economic and socio-economic status as a nation. We can start to solve this problem by keeping out crops and the money in our own country. By producing and selling crops such as corn locally we will receive benefits such as the distribution of fresher produce, the crops are more genetically diverse, more money will come to the farmers who make the crops, and overall more money will be pumped into our economy. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FATUS/ http://www.circleofresponsibility.com/page/57/why-buy-local.htm (Campbemp (talk) 16:57, 28 September 2011 (UTC))

Who wrote this article? Monsanto's Marketing Director? Jajaja — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.35.161.114 (talk) 14:12, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

three strikes: the numbers are all wrong; this article is about a region not corn itself; and this is not a forum for political arguments. Rjensen (talk) 19:17, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

The Corn Belt and the Grain Belt are not exactly the same thing. The Grain Belt generally refers to the Wheat and small grains growing portion of the U.S., further west than the Corn belt. The term Grain Belt is not use nearly as much these days as it was in the past. Grain belt would be the dakotas, nebraska, kansas and eastern montana. --66.41.154.0 (talk) 17:13, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

I also redirected Farm Belt here based on a few references, though I'm not quite sure how to work it into the wording. GreenReaper (talk) 23:38, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Ambiguity

This phrase in the first paragraph is ambiguous: "Most corn is fed to livestock, especially hogs and poultry. In recent decades soybeans have grown in importance. The U.S. produces 40% of the world crop.". Which crop does the U.S. produce 40% of: corn or soybeans? MrB (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:46, 22 January 2012 (UTC).

GM

I've tagged this section because it reads like an advertisement for the GM industry. It needs to include opposing views too. Colonies Chris (talk) 22:35, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Why is this section even in an article describing a geographic region? So instead of asking why it is so obviously a biased point of view, lets ask why it is even here. Additionally, the reference cited itself cites an article authored by the then-Chairman of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications. Kaiomai (talk) 01:22, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Dead Link

The link in the references section #3 ( USDA State Fact sheets ) points to an error message. It should be replaced with http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn.aspx ... Guy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.183.153.130 (talk) 21:32, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Distance

How far is it from one end of the Corn Belt to the other? I can't imagine that given the map it should be too hard to google the distance so people have an idea of how much of this country is the Corn Belt. I believe it would be significant in giving people like me who live in the Northeast who are ignorant about the an idea of the immensity of our breadbasket. Thanks to anyone who has any references/sources for the size of the Corn Belt.Tomandzeke (talk) 02:44, 28 September 2016 (UTC)