How America Uses its Land

America belongs to its cows. More than one-third of U.S. land is used for pasture. It is by far the largest land-use type in the contiguous 48 states. But that's not all a large proportion of the USA's cropland is used to produce feed. This cropland added to all those pastures results in 41 percent of land in the contiguous states given over to livestock. That is a lot of land set aside for