Re:Are the Great Lakes really inland seas?
by cmrdporcupine on Thursday April 28, 2022 @08:06PM
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I should have clarified. It never left, but it became much less diverse.
And in the more northeast states, it actually left.
It never left, Illinois and Minnesota are the 3rd and 5th largest producers of staple crops (the other being California, Iowa, and Texas, respectively, and CA and TX are only slightly larger in production but massively larger in size). West of the Mississippi, ranching dominates agriculture due to the poor soil and dry climate.
Largely that corn and soy in the Great Lakes region is being used as animal feed for the ranches out west. They already have massive utilization of land area for the production of these crops.