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[-] yuri@pawb.social 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] bestagon@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 hours ago

To be fair, corn is yellow

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Corn has consumed anyone who could answer.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 7 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

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Try driving through it. It's horrible.

Can confirm. I live in the Midwest.

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 24 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] pomfegranate@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Shut your damn mouth nobody ever liked it here.

[-] tychosmoose@lemm.ee 52 points 19 hours ago

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

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

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

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.

[-] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] Xbeam@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 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/

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Really? Only 0.4%?

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

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 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.

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 4 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 13 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.

[-] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago

Get your shit together, Alaska!

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[-] pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 19 hours ago

We are the children...of ethanol.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 20 points 21 hours ago

TIL most US corn is Republican

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 21 hours ago

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

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 33 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 9 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 15 points 19 hours ago

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.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 19 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Except Massachusetts apparently.

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[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 19 hours ago

Why are you telling me which states have no data?

I thought this was about corn?

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 13 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

It all should have been shades of yellow.

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