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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

ayyyy lifelong nebraska resident here! you can absolutely tell if you ever drive through here, shit’s ALL farmland.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

This makes me wonder what the map creator considers a green amount of corn to be lol. 100%?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

0.4 and 0.7% are different colors, but 10 and 37% are the same

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

To be fair, corn is yellow

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And how do we have NO DATA about the crops growing in any state?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Corn has consumed anyone who could answer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Drove through North Dakota once. It was all corn for hours. Absolutely stupid amounts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I can't imagine 1/3 of everything you see in an entire state being corn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Try driving through it. It's horrible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Can confirm. I live in the Midwest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Having lived in Chicagoland, what are the corn growing incentives there?! Every empty field in the city is full of corn. Seems smart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Drainage and flood risk. Chicago is basically a swamp. Idk about every lot, there's probably ridiculous tax loopholes and kick backs, etc what with it being Illinois. But there's a lot of shit land in and around Chicago

[–] [email protected] 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Could you imagine living in Hawaii and not having readily available corn fields? How would I do all my corn field based activities?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I was literally just thinking that we need more corn fields here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ohio is nice this time of year and all the kids are taking about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Shut your damn mouth nobody ever liked it here.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly it fits my theory that one of the Dakotas doesn't really exist.

It's probably where all the birds are controlled from.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

One of them certainly shouldn't exist. The fact that that area is split into two states is only to have two more Republican Senators.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

State borders are strange. Like why the part of Florida in the central time zone isn't just Alabama doesn't make sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Imaginary corn. Like John Peters, you know, the farmer, grows.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Hard to believe there is no data on corn fields in the home state of the Corn Palace.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Palace

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

It's roughly 13%, looked up a more recent map because I was curious about the "garden state" I grew up in. I know we're the most densely populated but not even 2% seemed surprising with how many corn fields I pass by while driving.

https://brilliantmaps.com/percentage-corn-fields/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Really? Only 0.4%?

Because it sure feels like there's way more corn here than that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

If you’re referring to CA, it’s % of the entire state. Think of how much of CA is arid, mountainous, or otherwise unsuitable for corn or other agriculture.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You're probably seeing mostly grapes, tomatoes, cotton and cannabis, as well as grains that aren't corn?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

I definitely see more corn than all of those other things combined. And it's not even for human consumption; it's for the cows.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Get your shit together, Alaska!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

if the numbers seem low dont forget about soy. and maybe wheat or alfalfa

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

We are the children...of ethanol.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

TIL most US corn is Republican

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

The second highest on this map, illinois, is a Dem state

[–] [email protected] 33 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, the corn isn’t growing in the blue part of Illinois

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Never been to Chicagoland? Every empty field is filled in with corn. Smash a gas station flat? Now it's a cornfield.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

Yes it is. As a resident, I can attest that the corn is growing about damn near everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Multiple counties in Illinois voted in favor of exploring secession from the state because they don't like how Chicago turns the state blue. It would definitely be a red state without us.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

Every state would be a red state without the major cities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Except Massachusetts apparently.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

Why are you telling me which states have no data?

I thought this was about corn?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I don't agree with the color choice. Green would've been much nicer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

It all should have been shades of yellow.

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