Surprised there isn’t more farmland close to the east coast (where price for food is incredibly high)
This is just a map of land bill gates owns
Yet half of the fresh fruit and veg comes from California. Way too much wheat, corn and soy out there.
University of Nebraska had a huge exhibit of what a cross section of a massive prairie slice looked like from hundreds of years ago. Grasses with fifteen foot long roots
![[OC] Map of Farmland in the US](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/rng7ge91q4he1-1920x1024.jpeg)
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Data:Â [https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/#192AC790-6279-32C2-9483-94F716CC6D81](https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/#192AC790-6279-32C2-9483-94F716CC6D81)
Tools: R – packages: ggplot2, dplyr, stringr, sf, usmap, ggfx, scales
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Right there in the center column
I think it would he interesting to see that differentiated between crop land and grazing land.
New England: “we do not sew!”
I recently flew from Denver to Louisville. Â Looking out the window it seemed like never ending farmland.
Now post a map of all the farmland the ccp own
It’s funny if you do an overlay of German Americans in Minnesota, you see a noticeable [correlation](http://www.geocurrents.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/German-Americans-Map.png) with farmland.
Whereas the Scandinavians are more [concentrated](https://www.geocurrents.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Percent-Scandinavian-US-Map.png) in the northeast, where there is substantially less.
Surprised there isn’t more farmland close to the east coast (where price for food is incredibly high)
This is just a map of land bill gates owns
Yet half of the fresh fruit and veg comes from California. Way too much wheat, corn and soy out there.
University of Nebraska had a huge exhibit of what a cross section of a massive prairie slice looked like from hundreds of years ago. Grasses with fifteen foot long roots
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