By practicing agroforestry — growing trees alongside crops and livestock, for example — farmers can improve soils, produce nutrient-rich foods, and build resilience to climate change. Now, a movement is emerging to bring this approach to the depleted lands of the Corn Belt.
  • bluGill@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Large parts of the corn palt are prarie and should be grass as far as eye can see. Corn is a grass.

    • ODGreen@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      The area this article is talking about was oak savannah:

      Within these oak savannas, which were interlaced with prairies, tree crowns covered between 10 percent and 30 percent of the ground. They were essentially a transition between the tight deciduous forests of the East and the fully open grasslands further west.