WM, at least you have those swamps that cannot be tilled. Wildlife needs some natural winter cover, and it’s a balm for the soul to have some soil that’s never been turned over.
But then I shouldn’t get too worked up at Iowa farmers for squeezing the land when it goes for 18-22k per acre.
With your mix of farmland and swamps, I imagine you grow some nice whitetails.
One more divergence — even the Hun’s, the hardiest bird I’ve ever seen, have for the most part departed from here though they were never numerous.
Thankfully, America is wonderfully diverse in a thousand ways.
