Dairy Region of Southeastern Wisconsin and Northeastern Illinois

FIGURE 1.-Types of farming in the vicinity of Lake Michigan. The main dairy region lies west of the lake in the region possessing the humid continental short summer climate. The Illinois cash-grain area is south and southwest of Chicago. agricultural practice of the farms of the region. Circulation on the highways of the area likewise reflects in part the outstanding rural industry, for trucks filled with milk cans, and huge vacuum-tank trucks with their associated trailers, are common sights. Country collecting points for milk, usually at railroad sites in the villages (reflecting the past, for the tank truck and trailer has almost completely replaced the railroad as a milk-transporting agent) complete a picture of adjustment of the agricultural economy to milk production-an economy so completely dominating the area that it is almost as as a region of commercial one-crop wheat production

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• Milking the Plains

  Open Access•Lisa M B Harrington, Max Lu et al.•Geographical Review•2010

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