MLRA 73 - Rolling Plains and Breaks Kansas and Nebraska 59,260 km2 (22,880 mi2)

Land Use:
Nearly all this area is in farms, and about three-fifths is dry-farmed cropland. Winter wheat and grain sorghum are the major crops in much of the area, but corn is important in the north. Feed grains and hay are other major crops. About 2 percent of the area, mostly narrow bands of bottom land and terraces along the Republican and Platte Rivers and their major tributaries, is irrigated. Corn, alfalfa, small grains, and hay are the principal crops grown on irrigated land, but some potatoes and vegetables are grown. One-third or more of the area is in native grasses used for grazing.

12/16/98