List the south's four major crops, in order of amount of land devoted to producing them

The South's four major crops are: Corn, Soybean, Wheat and Cotton.

Corn (Maize) - in 2015, the area harvested maize was 87 millions acres. It was named the state's official grain in Illinois.

Soybean - By 2000 covered 70 million acres. (america's largest crop).

Wheat - the harvesting occurs on land area of 60-63 million acres.

Cotton - remains a major export of Southern United States.

Before the Civil War, or Antebellum era, the south was mainly an agricultural region, the major southern crops were:

Cotton on the first place, followed by grain, tobacco and sugar.

These are placed in order of the amount of land that was devoted to producing each one of them.