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The belt regions of the United States are portions of the country that share certain characteristics. The "belt" terminology was first applied to growing regions for various crops, which often follow lines of latitude because those are more likely to have similar climates.

U.S. Climate Divisions, U.S. Climate Regions, Contiguous U.S. Major River Basins as designated by the U.S. Water Resources Council, Miscellaneous regions in the Contiguous U.S., U.S. Census Divisions, National Weather Service Regions, the major agricultural belts in the Contiguous U.S. (Corn, Cotton, Primary Corn and Soybean, Soybean, Spring ...

Nov 4, 2016 · As the largest cultivation area of corn and soybean, the US Corn Belt and neighboring states (called the Extended Corn Belt or ECB) account for about one third of global production,...

Sep 15, 2020 · In this work, we created maps of corn and soybean across 13 states of the US Midwest back to 1999, using all available imagery from the Landsat archive and a consistent methodology across all...

More than 85% of maize and soybean is produced in the north-central region known as the ‘Corn Belt’, where continuous maize (≈35%) and 2-year maize–soybean rotation (≈65%) are the dominant cropping systems.

Mar 15, 2018 · Over 36% of global corn production is in the USA, largely within the Midwest Corn Belt (Ort and Long, 2014). The Corn Belt is generally considered the region of the USA extending across 12 Midwest states (Panagopoulos et al., 2015), largely planted in a corn-soybean rotation (Suyker and Verma, 2012).

May 11, 2022 · Soybean Planting - The 2022 U.S. soybeans are 12% planted compared to 39% last year and 24% average. The soybean emergence is 3% compared to 9% last year and 4% average. The most rapid progress is in the western Corn Belt in states such as Nebraska and Kansas and the slowest is in the far northwestern Corn Belt and the eastern Corn Belt.

Jul 9, 2013 · Concentration of corn and soybean production in the U.S. is examined in this article. As is well known, corn and soybeans production is concentrated in the Corn-belt, with significant amounts of production occurring in the upper Midwest, parts of the Great Plains, and down the Mississippi River.

May 14, 2019 · The U.S. corn crop is currently 30% planted and the soybean crop is 9% planted. Driven by above-average precipitation and below-average temperatures across the Corn Belt, this is the slowest pace of plantings since 2013 .