Land use in the US : dataisbeautiful

[–] A2PKXG@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

suburbs take up less place than i expected

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nice, guess I'm on team Food we eat!

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I always knew Michigan was an unproductive POS /s

[–] rusticus1773@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot “food we eat”?

Field corn and soybeans are STRICTLY for animal (specifically cow, pig sheep and chicken) consumption. Food we eat is from California.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah, I'm pretty sure there's some agriculture going on in California, which produces 50% of the nation's produce. Florida too ("landowning families" isn't a use?). Also we eat corn from the central Midwest, and lots of wheat from Dakotas and Minnesota.

[–] AzzyDev@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Don’t forget pumpkin! The Midwest produces much of the world’s pumpkin, I think Illinois alone makes about 85%, but I may be wrong on that figure.

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[–] terabytes@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I have to tell you, there's plenty of farmed land on the entire west coast this map does not depict. Less than half of the areas labeled timberlands are forested, as a generous estimate.

Edit: as the comments under this state, I just didn't understand what was being represented and how.

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I hate, hate, HATE this. It implies the main land-use is the only use. Do people in the Midwest simply commute 2,000 miles a day, since that's where the housing is? This belongs in c/UglyInaccurateData...

[–] Snapz@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You're mis, mis MISUNDERSTANDING this map.

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[–] jimrob4@midwest.social -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, look how much more land would be available if we just stopped eating cows!!!! /s

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Central Texas is mostly used for defense? Since when? Everywhere I look around it’s tech.

[+] survivorseason44@midwest.social -6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

That makes no sense for Michigan at all. I’d imagine Michigan land use is mostly forest (so much national forest/protected wetlands here), then agriculture, then urban space (Metro Detroit is most of this), then a little pasture. The only way “idle” makes sense to me is if any protected forest/natural land is considered “idle”

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