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By Norman J. Rosenberg

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The North American nice Plains is an important international breadbasket yet its agriculture is under pressure via drought, warmth, destructive winds, soil erosion and declining flooring water assets. Biomass creation and processing at the Plains could in part fix a perennial vegetative disguise and create employment possibilities. This booklet explores the prospect that the ecology and financial system of the Plains zone, and comparable areas, would receive advantages from the advent of perennial biomass crops.

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Although soil organic matter (humus) is in low concentration, overall carbon content may be high because of the presence of precipitated calcium carbonate. These soils, typically Mollisols, are rich in bases. A view of the shortgrass prairie is shown in Figure 2-10. Figure 2-10. A view of shortgrass prairie near Ft. Collins, Colorado. edu/gallery/sgs/SGS_010016_1) (See Color Plates) 36 Chapter 2 • The Great Plains Steppe Province (#332) is the narrow strip running from the prairie parkland on its east to about the 104th meridian from Canada to Oklahoma.

These occur after formation of towering cumulus The Physical Environment 15 clouds in summer. The distribution of rainfall from this type of storm is much spottier than from frontal system rainfall events. The annual patterns of precipitation in the Great Plains change with the seasons. The distribution of snow in the north and rain in the south is fairly uniform from east to west in winter, but winter precipitation contributes only a small portion of the annual total. The bulk of the annual precipitation falls during the growing season from April to September.

Land area in crops is on the order of nearly 68 million hectares. North Dakota is the most heavily farmed of the Great Plains States with 64% of its area in crops, followed by Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Pasture and rangeland predominate in North Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma with more than 60% of the land in these three states in pasture or range. The mountain states of Montana and Wyoming and the Plains states of Nebraska and South Dakota are each more than 40% in range and pasture land (Table 2-4).

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