Fuel of the Present, Fuel of the Future...CORN

 Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Southern Michigan, Western Ohio, Eastern Nebraska, Eastern Kansas, Southern Minnesota, and parts of Missouri, all comprise the "Corn Belt" 

You can add South Dakota, North Dakota, Indiana, Wisconsin and Kentucky, great fertile flat lands.

Rows and Rows of Corn, 

But...what happens when you transplant corn from one state to another...

Can you take Illinois corn and plant it in Texas? will it grow?

Or perhaps Indiana corn to Mississippi?

The U.S. Department of Agriculture had this very same question, they wanted to determine if it were possible to grow different strains of corn in different areas. being research minded and wanting to produce a viable format of research, the department decided to work outwards from the existing Corn growing states so they could monitor the differences in growth as they moved further and further away from the Belt.

They started simple, by taking Ohio corn and planting it in PA., they found that the growth in the flat areas belong the mountains worked well, Lancaster area in particular. Moving east and north the tried New York state, here also the plant did good, but open flat land was harder to find. 

The next area tested was Connecticut, Transplanted Ohio corn in Connecticut produced a dramatic change....

At this point the study was cancelled because of the results. 
While not giving any specific results, a department employee, who wished to remain anonymous said, "the results turned too Scary to proceed further, transplanting Ohio to Connecticut was a risk not worth taking again.