Buck:

The absence of farms doesn't necessarily mean an absence of good nutrition. Why would you try to make crop fields out of mountainous terrain?

I think (though I won't speak for the author of that statement) he was speaking "in general". I'm sure IL has small, inferior gened bucks, too.....though the probability of the opposite is more likely. The fertlity and nutrient content of the midwest soil isnot up for debate. It's fact.