agriculture

How Settlers Transformed the Heart of American Agriculture

Dan Agri-Business, American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

Where Forest Meets Prairie: Iowa’s Agricultural Crossroads Iowa sits at one of North America’s most remarkable natural boundaries — the meeting point of the great eastern forests and the vast western prairies. This was no sharp dividing line, but a gradual shift in the landscape. In Iowa, however, trees finally gave way to endless miles of tallgrass prairie, marking the …

Iowa agriculture history

Pioneering the Midwest: How Settlers Turned Iowa’s Prairies into Farmland

Dan American Agriculture History Minute, This Land of Ours

The Great Migration West By the 1850s, America’s westward expansion had surged into a defining movement. Families from the eastern states packed their wagons and made the long journey toward the fertile promise of the Midwest. The banks of the Mississippi River soon filled with settlers camping along the shoreline, waiting patiently for ferry boats to carry them across into …