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AGRICULTURAL LANDS
The United States has more than 121 million hectares (300 million
acres) of prime farmland — land that has the soil type, growing
conditions, and available water to produce food, forage, fiber, and
oilseed crops. Certain areas of the country have large amounts of prime
farmland; for example, 90 percent of the Corn Belt — a corn-growing
region in the Midwest encompassing parts of six states — is considered
prime farmland.
Keep in mind that not all prime farmland is used to grow crops.
Approximately one-third contains roads, pastures, rangeland, forests,
feedlots, and farm buildings.
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