The plains on the far east edge of the state seemed pretty green when I drove through in early October. Lot of grass obviously and trees planted around farms at least provided some evidence of enough rain to support them. And while they get less rain than we do it's more evenly spread throughout the year. However i haven't done much study of what all is involved in growing crops there.

Agree about the cold and wind though. Though considering one of the other states on my list is Alaska I've accepted that's likely to be in my future. Anyplace that doesn't have cold winters is going to have too hot of summers for my tastes.