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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Try driving through it. It's horrible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour 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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

To be fair, corn is yellow

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Corn has consumed anyone who could answer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Really? Only 0.4%?

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Shut your damn mouth nobody ever liked it here.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Having flown over Iowa in a small plane many times this checks out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Living in Iowa, this checks out. All I know is corn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Having lived in Iowa, the number honestly feels a little low. I guess the soybeans have to grow somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I thought Ohio would be higher...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

The other 87% of Ohio is soy beans

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

As a foreigner, based on my road trip from Houston to Port Fourchon in Louisiana, I would have thunk those two percentages would've been substantially higher. Especially Louisiana.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

It's cheaper to grow corn closer to the main roads.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

Why are you telling me which states have no data?

I thought this was about corn?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Get your shit together, Alaska!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Embarrassing

“No data“ it at that point

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