The Agricultural Core

The Agricultural Core is a culture region based on an accumulated mix of habits, attitudes, and reactions to the traditional opportunities for livelihood and contact with other groups within the region. Basically, the Agricultural Core is small-town and rural America specially flavored with the agricultural patterns of this region. The population of the Agricultural Core is politically and socially cautious yet independent, secure in what has proven successful and not strongly exposed to the pressures for change found in major urban centers or in the transition zones between regions. "Middle America" is a popular term applied to the region. Taken from http://www.america.gov/


The agricultural core has a corn production as great as 175 or more bushels per acre, California although is not in the agricultural core well is a great productor of corn in the United States. Here is a chart with corn production by county.
STATISTICS OF CORN PRODUCTION BY COUNTY
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/Publications/County_Estimates/200603crnsp.pdf