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100 1 Hudson, John C.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
n84037247
245 10 Making the corn belt :|ba geographical history of middle-
western agriculture /|cJohn C. Hudson.
264 1 Bloomington, Ind. :|bIndiana University Press,|c[1994]
264 4 |c©1994
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490 1 Midwestern history and culture
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-246) and
index.
505 0 Corn belt geography -- Making the land -- Finding the land
-- Zea Mays -- The feedlot -- Razorbacks and Poland-Chinas
-- The first corn belt -- Corn belt sectionalism --
Specialization and westward expansion -- New crops and
northward expansion -- West to the Plains -- The corn
business.
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520 Stretching from the Rockies to the Appalachians, the Corn
Belt is America's heartland. Making the Corn Belt traces
the geographical and agricultural evolution of this region,
whose agriculture is based on the tradition of feeding
corn to meat animals, especially beef cattle and hogs. The
use of corn as a feed grain emerged in the westward
movement of Euro-American farming people from the Upland
South to the Ohio Valley.
520 8 In the five islands of fertile land west of the
Appalachians - the Nashville Basin, Pennyroyal Plateau,
Bluegrass, Miami Valley, and Virginia Military District -
corn emerged as the best crop to feed livestock. Thus was
the Corn Belt born.
520 8 Migrants from the Five Islands took corn-livestock
agriculture west to the Mississippi Valley, and by 1850
the core of today's Corn Belt was a cultural region
developed by a segment of the population whose ancestry
could be traced back to the Ohio Valley. Corn Belt
agriculture, however, spread northward more slowly than it
did westward, partly because of the patterns of migration
established in the spread of the frontier.
520 8 The Civil War demonstrated that, even though its
agriculture was distinctive, the larger region was divided
in social and political terms.
520 8 John Hudson traces these regional-agricultural themes into
the rapid technological changes of the 1930s. The
introduction of soybeans at about this time helped shift
parts of the Corn Belt from livestock feeding to cash-
grain production. Some of these trends continue today in
parts of the region, while other areas have specialized in
cattle feeding as the meat-packing industry has shifted
westward.
520 8 Farm residents in the 1990s account for less than 2
percent of the national population. In the Middle West
today, to be a "farm resident" no longer means what it
once did: although nearly two-thirds of the men work
primarily on the farm, nearly three-fourths of farm women
are principally employed elsewhere. Many farmers have left
the land and abandoned the "traditional" farm, but those
who remain have been even more productive.
520 8 The "typical" Corn Belt farm has disappeared, replaced by
a small cluster of metal buildings surrounding a suburban
tract home. John C. Hudson takes us to the heart of the
Corn Belt and captures the essence of this most "American"
region.
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