Sunday, March 22, 2015

Geography 321, Chapter 8: The Corn Belt and Madison

Photo: Randen L. Pederson "Wisconsin Farm" September 12, 2007 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution.


Madison does not contact to Great Lake region, and it has own lakes nearby. However, Madison is located within the corn belt; the manufacturing core of cash-grain farms that grow corn, soybeans, and other crops that are sold directly to food processing companies. Also these grains used to feed cattle and hogs to producing meat. 


(http://www.wicci.wisc.edu/agriculture-working-group.php)
Dane county is where Madison located on south/south-central part of Wisconsin. This area's soils are created from glacial drift and they are generally very deep, well drained, and loamy.



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