Monocultures are environmentally devastating btw.
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ayyyy lifelong nebraska resident here! you can absolutely tell if you ever drive through here, shit’s ALL farmland.
This makes me wonder what the map creator considers a green amount of corn to be lol. 100%?
0.4 and 0.7% are different colors, but 10 and 37% are the same
To be fair, corn is yellow
And how do we have NO DATA about the crops growing in any state?
Corn has consumed anyone who could answer.
I can't imagine 1/3 of everything you see in an entire state being corn.
Try driving through it. It's horrible.
Can confirm. I live in the Midwest.
Having lived in Chicagoland, what are the corn growing incentives there?! Every empty field in the city is full of corn. Seems smart.
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
Drove through North Dakota once. It was all corn for hours. Absolutely stupid amounts.
Could you imagine living in Hawaii and not having readily available corn fields? How would I do all my corn field based activities?
I was literally just thinking that we need more corn fields here
Ohio is nice this time of year and all the kids are taking about it.
Shut your damn mouth nobody ever liked it here.
No Data = Stealth Corn
Honestly it fits my theory that one of the Dakotas doesn't really exist.
It's probably where all the birds are controlled from.
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.
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.
Imaginary corn. Like John Peters, you know, the farmer, grows.
Hard to believe there is no data on corn fields in the home state of the Corn Palace.
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.
Really? Only 0.4%?
Because it sure feels like there's way more corn here than that.
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.
You're probably seeing mostly grapes, tomatoes, cotton and cannabis, as well as grains that aren't corn?
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.
We are the children...of ethanol.
TIL most US corn is Republican
The second highest on this map, illinois, is a Dem state
To be fair, the corn isn’t growing in the blue part of Illinois
Never been to Chicagoland? Every empty field is filled in with corn. Smash a gas station flat? Now it's a cornfield.
Yes it is. As a resident, I can attest that the corn is growing about damn near everywhere.
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.
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if the numbers seem low dont forget about soy. and maybe wheat or alfalfa
Why are you telling me which states have no data?
I thought this was about corn?
I don't agree with the color choice. Green would've been much nicer.
It all should have been shades of yellow.
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