[DOC] [TLE] Corn Belt - Wikipedia [PAR] The Corn Belt is a region of the Midwestern United States where corn (maize) 
has, since the 1850s, been the predominant crop, replacing the native tall 
grasses. By 1950, 99% of the corn was grown from hybrids. ... History[edit]. In the 
era from 1860 to 1970, new agricultural technology transformed the Corn Belt 
from a mixed... [DOC] [TLE] Black Belt (U.S. region) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Black Belt is a region of the Southern United States. The term originally 
described the ... The United States Department of Agriculture in 2000 proposed 
creating a ... It defined the region, called the Southern Black Belt, as a patchwork 
of 623 ... That chalk eventually became a fertile soil highly suitable for growing 
crops. [DOC] [TLE] Agriculture in Alabama | Encyclopedia of Alabama [PAR] Dec 4, 2007 ... The central Alabama Black Belt Prairie region, once known as the ... Although 
cotton and other crops were grown on the sandy soils of the... [DOC] [TLE] Black Belt Region in Alabama | Encyclopedia of Alabama [PAR] Sep 18, 2009 ... A geological formation known as the Selma Chalk underlies the ... When cotton 
was the dominant crop grown in the region, the Black ... the Black Belt agricultural 
landscape, as in the rest of Alabama, has undergone dramatic changes. .... This 
site offers articles on Alabama's famous people, historic events,... [DOC] [TLE] Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | AGRICULTURE [PAR] Barley, canola, corn, cotton, sorghum, and soybeans grown in the Great ... Corn 
and wheat became the most important crops of the Plains, just as they had ... The 
region's agricultural history has frequently involved attempts to cope with 
droughts. .... Soils of the Parkland Belt are known as Luvisols in the Canadian 
system of... [DOC] [TLE] Black Belt Booklet - Auburn University [PAR] Made famous by the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, the Edmund Pettus ... 
The region known as Alabama's Black Belt cuts directly through the middle of the 
state, from ... labor supported the region's many cotton plantations and other 
agricultural work. ... play an ever-growing increasing leadership role in the 
recovery. [DOC] [TLE] There's a Place That's Nearly Perfect for Growing Food. It's Not ... [PAR] Apr 20, 2015 ... California is by far the dominant US produce-growing statesource of (large ... in 
that region's base of farmland) from corn and soy to veggies could have a ... I 
bounced my idea of a Cotton Belt fruit-and-vegetable renaissance off a few ... of 
the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, called it "noncrazy. [DOC] [TLE] Reconsidering the Southern Black Belt [PAR] The portion of the South known as the Black Belt lies at the heart of what was 
once the cotton- and-tobacco plantation region and retains a large black 
population. ... poverty rates and relatively slow economic growth, its large net loss 
of blacks to ... both southern agricultural paternalism and, due to interregional 
migration,... [DOC] [TLE] Great Depression | New Georgia Encyclopedia [PAR] Nov 5, 2007 ... ("Cash crops" are crops that are grown to sell, rather than crops that are grown for 
... crash of Tuesday, October 29, 1929 (also known as "Black Tuesday"). ... In 
Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties (1936) the .... In the most 
far-reaching of all reforms, Georgia's cash-crop agriculture, long... [DOC] [TLE] Slavery in Antebellum Georgia | New Georgia Encyclopedia [PAR] Although the Revolution fostered the growth of an antislavery movement in the ... 
were perfecting new mechanized cotton gins, the most famous of which was ... By 
1860 the slave population in the Black Belt was ten times greater than that in ... 
slaveholders to gin their cotton and to assist them in bringing their crop to market. [DOC] [TLE] Bamboo touted as crop for Black Belt farmers - Tuscaloosa News [PAR] May 23, 2010 ... Marsha Folsom knows farmers in Alabama's Black Belt take risks ... Because of 
the poverty ... an agro-forestry business could turn the area

Question: The agricultural area known as The Black Belt is famous for growing this crop
Answer: Cotton