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

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

From Los Angeles Times

"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."

From Science Daily

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.

From Science Daily

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.

From Seattle Times

Excess nitrogen pollutes groundwater and causes algal blooms in lakes—even as far away from the Corn Belt as the Gulf of Mexico.

From Science Magazine