What do people do on Iowas rich soil?
(Make a list on the board.) People grow or manage and harvest these things that depend on the land. • Grain crops such as corn, soybeans, alfalfa hay, and oats. In fact, Iowa ranks number one or two in corn and soybean production. • Livestock such as pigs, egg-laying hens, beef cattle, dairy cows, sheep, and turkey. Iowa is a top livestock producing state. The animals eat the grain grown in Iowa and their manure is worked back in the soil as a nutrient to feed the plants. • Orchards, Christmas trees, nursery stock, berries, pumpkins, vegetables, flowers, and herbs. • Pastures, prairies, roadsides, waterways, lawns, golf coarses, and other places where grasses grow. • Forests and other places where trees are grown for profit • Horses, dogs, cats, goats, geese, buffalo, elk, ostrich, emu and other domestic animals eat food that started with the land. • Wild animals such as deer, raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, skunks, pheasants, wild turkeys, Canada geese, and mice, depend on food grown fr
