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My understanding is that a lot of that area is really hard to build and farm on, due to rock close to the surface or other problems? The temperature changing might help with some of it but it's not going to be ideal bread basket land without some other work, right?

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It's mostly forested and much wetland. Much of history they've been rain forests. Just like Nebraska used to be at the bottom of the Ocean, and yet at Ash falls you can find much more recent pristine Camel and Rhino fossils, amongst others. But in Nebraska! Perhaps 10 to 12 million years old, also horses and various birds.

The farmland could be moved north. Literally digging up the soil and moving it.

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