The vernacular region we call the Corn Belt has been in existence since the late 1800s, and as will be discussed later, could be as easily referred to today as the Corn-Soybean Belt (Napton, 2007). In 1892 The Nation first printed the term “Corn Belt”, and in 1903 it was first used academically when Harvard University economist T.N. Carver wrote of “a tolerably compact strip where corn is the principle crop, and which may properly be called the corn belt” (Carver, 1903a), and later that year Carver again referred to the region as “the most considerable area in the world where agriculture is uniformly prosperous” (Carver, 1903b). These earliest references most likely refer to areas of western Ohio and central Indiana, where the first hint of what would become the contemporary Corn Belt were found (Auch et al., 2013).