U.S. States with the Highest Percentage of Farmland

Name the ten states which have the highest percent of their land area used for farming and ranching.
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State
92.2
Nebraska
89.2
South Dakota
88.9
North Dakota
88.2
Kansas
85.7
Iowa
78.3
Oklahoma
77.8
Texas
75.8
Illinois
64.2
Missouri
64.2
Indiana
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Level 81
Nov 24, 2017
Farmland is actually a name of a town in Indiana as well.
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Level 84
Nov 30, 2017
Surprised at the most guessed answer until I went back and reread the instructions... *ranching
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Level 77
Dec 6, 2017
Took FOREVER to get Missouri for some reason. I even tried Hawaii before trying Missouri.
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Level 70
Jan 3, 2018
Me too!
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Level 82
Feb 15, 2018
Illinois surprised me
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Level 82
Feb 24, 2018
Once you get west of Chicago on I-80 it's basically the same as the rest of these states. 200 miles of corn fields.
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Level 45
Nov 8, 2018
yep!
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Level 84
Feb 24, 2018
Drive through it - flatter than Kansas
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Level 73
Feb 24, 2018
And driving south from Chicago, except for a few areas where rivers change the terrain slightly and a few college towns, there is nothing but absolutely flat farm fields with rich, dark brown soil for hundreds of miles. It is not difficult to go to a place where you cannot see a house or a single tree or a utility pole in any direction. Just empty fields bisected by the road you took to get to that spot. Especially after the harvest in the fall, it can be jarring but it is really beautiful, in its own way. For sure, it's peaceful!
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Level 88
Dec 9, 2019
All I think of is in Fargo when he looks around for a landmark to remember where he's burying the money.
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Level 86
Feb 24, 2018
Having driven through all of them many times, I can tell you that the parts of Illinois that are not Chicago are basically indistinguishable from Indiana, Iowa, etc.
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Level 44
Feb 24, 2018
no California? if you fly over the southern part there is more agriculture there it seems than in Arizona, which btw abotu 3/4s of AZ is ranch land..
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Level 62
May 6, 2021
California has too many mountains and deserts.
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Level 82
Feb 24, 2018
*mildly* surprised to not see California or Alaska on here...but... having driven through the middle of the country where 100% of these states are (and lived in California), it's not really that surprising. Most boring drive of my life was going through Iowa. 300 miles of corn. That was until I got to Nebraska. 400 miles of corn. So many bugs by the time we got to Wyoming it looked like we had slaughtered an animal on the hood of my car.
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Level 78
Feb 24, 2018
Had to drive from Chicago to Ogden, Iowa for a funeral and back. I empathize with you, really. At least there was a tornado on the way back to keep things from being completely monotonous.
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Level 45
Nov 8, 2018
geez, guys be nice to Iowa....you still drive through Iowa City and Des Moines, well, going east and west anyways.
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Level 60
Jan 14, 2021
I'm gonna be honest, Iowa has more like a dozen/two dozen towns to drive through and do stuff in. Nebraska has Omaha and Lincoln. There's nothing past them.
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Level 84
Feb 25, 2018
You fellas haven't ever had to drive across North Dakota, have you? :-)
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Level 82
Feb 25, 2018
I haven't... but I can't imagine how it could possibly be worse.

I did drive through the salt flats of Utah, which were more flat and featureless than driving through Nebraska, but in that case it takes it to such an extreme level that it becomes surreal and a bit mesmerizing. When you can't tell the difference between Earth and sky, the landscape and the horizon and the atmosphere all bleed and blur together in a blinding white haze with one perfectly straight black line extending out in front of you seemingly into infinity, slowly disappearing into a shimmer, like driving into the twilight zone. So I feel like Iowa/Nebraska are at the absolute lowest point of being flat, featureless and monotonous until you get to the point where it becomes so extreme that it loops around and becomes interesting again. What's North Dakota like? I've been to South Dakota.

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Level 43
Feb 25, 2018
Have any of you driven across Canada? Specifically Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta?
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Level 82
Feb 26, 2018
I've only been to the odd habitable places of Canada (southern Ontario)
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Level 51
Feb 27, 2018
Don't forget Quebec and Vancouver, for starters. There are also some really nice smaller towns up by and south of the long Alaskan Panhandle.
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Level 74
Feb 27, 2018
Ah, yes, North Dakota, the place so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days straight.
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Level 88
Dec 9, 2019

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Level 75
Oct 28, 2020
No traffic jams or rush hour traffic - I'll take that any day over city driving...although remembering many trips through Kansas on the way to see my uncle in Colorado does make me think twice about my statement.
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Level 19
Nov 30, 2021
@dasubergeek I LOVE THAT SHOW!!!
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Level 67
Oct 14, 2022
It's better than Montana.
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Level 54
Feb 25, 2018
Flew from Australia to Dallas to, among other things, drive part of Route 66 from Oklahoma City to Chicago. Was interesting to see the farmland/rural areas in the US- quite different to our own down under! No tornadoes though (sadly?)
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Level 45
Nov 8, 2018
well, when there are, you have to get closer than you think to be in danger. Heck, once a tornado took a sleeping baby 10 miles without waking it up.
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Level 75
Oct 28, 2020
I've seen several and I'd gladly have exchanged places with you at those times. One of those caused several fatalities. And do not try to get close to one because they can quickly change direction. The one I remember best was in Arkansas when we were in the funeral procession of my husband's grandmother. We had to pull over to wait for a small twister to cross the road in front of the hearse. We watched as the back of the hearse raised up and lowered and rocked right and left several times, and my husband had to roll up his window because quarter-sized balls of mud were peppering our car like hail. An eerie green pinwheel started spinning on the hood of our car and another one swirled orange on the wire fence next to the road. They looked like fireworks going off. Not sure if it was St. Elmo's fire or maybe ball lightning but I've never seen anything like it before or since. I'm very thankful that was a small tornado.
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Level 66
Sep 14, 2018
I drove from West Coast to Midwest a few years ago. I liked the scenery of Nebraska much better than Southern Wyoming.
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Level 60
Jan 14, 2021
Why would Alaska be here? Most of the state is wilderness, not developed for farming. If anything, it's more about forestry.
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Level 72
Oct 19, 2020
What the heck is most of Arkansas used for if not farming / ranching? It's not dotted with significant urban areas like Illinois.
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Level 88
Oct 28, 2020
Three things...Mountains (Ozarks, Ouachita), forest (Arkansas Timberlands), and water (Mississippi, Arknasas river delta).
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Level 75
Oct 28, 2020
Yes, too many tree-covered hills in the Ozarks and Ouachitas to make the list. (By the way, Ouachita is pronounced like "Wash'-i-taw" not "Oo-chee'-tah" as Howard Cosell used to say it.)
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Level 51
Oct 19, 2020
100%
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Level 54
Oct 28, 2020
Surprised southern states aren't on here. So what is the Deep South good for if they're not farming? They sure aren't leading industries or building giant cities. Also surprised not to see Wisconsin on here, with it being stereotyped as Dairyland.
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Level 75
Oct 28, 2020
There's lots of farmland in the south but it is balanced out with plenty of hills, swamps, and pine forests. Energy and real estate are big industries, there are lots of pulp mills and manufacturing, and aerospace is big there, too. Houston and Atlanta might argue with you that the Deep South isn't growing big cities.
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Level 67
Oct 14, 2022
Yep. No cities in the South.
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Level 59
Mar 16, 2021
Finished the quiz with 1 second remaining. Phew!
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Level 28
Oct 14, 2022
as someone from nj, im shocked jersey wasnt here
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Level 71
Oct 14, 2022
You're joking, right?