plains
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Plains lifted U.S. wheat prices near two-year highs, while potential for an El Niño could make things even drier this summer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Its plant will neighbor the smelter at the Tulsa Port of Inola, an industrial park on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System that links New Orleans to the Great Plains.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
“It extends from Southern California all the way to the Great Plains and from Canada to Mexico,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
The high temperatures and dry, windy pattern was also expected to increase wildfire danger across parts of the West and High Plains.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
From there we saw for a while, away below and beyond us eastward, vague vast lands blurred with clouds and shadows of clouds and streaked with silver of rivers, the Plains of Rer.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
