Corn Belt

noun

1. a region in the midwestern U.S., especially Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, excellent for raising corn and cornfed livestock.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Corn Belt¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Some rain is arriving to Corn Belt states this week, which may alleviate some of this pressure, says Flynn.

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Corn Belt — which makes up less than 1% of the area of the planet — did not warm as projected.

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"When we traced those downstream emissions, we found they could potentially account for one-third of the total nitrous oxide emissions within the Corn Belt region."

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With observations in the United States Corn Belt, the KGML-ag framework significantly surpasses both process-based and pure machine learning models in accuracy, especially with limited data.

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Researchers who used satellite data to examine over 90,000 fields in six Corn Belt states found cover crops can reduce yields of cash crops — the bushels per acre.

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