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The Great Lakes and Corn Belt region of the United States share similarities in their fruitful bounties of agriculture with California's Central Valley. While California is the most productive state in terms of agricultural receipts with 13.20% of total US production, Iowa is the third with 6.07% of total US production. Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, and Kansas follow immediately after in ranking.
The Great Lakes and Corn Belt region is situated in a vast ventral lowland between the Appalachian Mountain Province to the east and the Rocky Mountains to the west. Much like the Central Valley surrounded by the Sierra Nevada mountain range, Cascade Range and Klamath Mountains, the Coast Range, and Tehachapi Mountains. Both areas share similar landscapes that consist of gentle rolling hills.
Like California, in the Great Lakes and Corn Belt region, the more north you travel, the more extreme the winters will get.
The Central Valley does not compare to the historically profitable industrial sector of the Great Lakes and Corn Belt region. It has not shared the same level of success. Sadly, there has been a mass exodus of the steel mills that made this region equally as profitable as their agricultural production. This exodus has coined the term "Rust Belt" for parts of the region.
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