each of these commodities. The loess belt and the Bootheel are the foremostrow-crop areas, but agriculture is successful throughout the Plains region and western Ozarks.Most corn is used for livestock feed. This helps explain why Missouri is a major livestock state,habitually ranking high among all U.S. states in the production of beef cattle, hogs, and dairycattle. Dairying is concentrated in southwestern Missouri. The distinctive agricultural economy ofthe Bootheel was once based on large cotton farms, but soybeans, corn, wheat, alfalfa, and ricehave displaced much of the cotton.Two Places that I Would Like to VisitAnheusor-Bush, St. Louis and Boones Cave, in Camdenton ....
