It's a fascinating notion, that agriculture carries on just as well
without water as with.
My buddy has a book on Coos County soils.
recall it has fascinating tables indicating the number of "animal units"***You weren't talking about artificial means such as irrigation. And it isn't soil type, it is a combination of soil (type, quality, quantity) to rainfall (annual, seasonal) to climate (humidity, fog, degree and intensity of heat) with the RIGHT type of pasture mix grasses plus the animal(s) (type, age, number) to be grazed. Any first year aggie student knows that!
that can be produced on pasture from each soil type, in both irrigated
and unirrigated conditions. I remember a factor of 3 difference between
the irrigated and unirrigated, in general. Would you like more specific
numbers? I can look it up if you like.
So what you're talking about is just a matter of degrees. On my very***It is still about type of grasses and ROTATION of pasture!
tiny place, the same productivity would not be possible if the same
conditions prevailed as at the neighbors' higher, drier places.
Yes, that land in the photo warehouses steers, but it fascinates me to***Ah, what photo? The only link I sent was of alpine lakes. AND, having known most of the ranchers in four counties, I know what they fed. As to the number of "animal units," refer to the paragraph above.
think you know what they're all fed. And of course, it's all
meaningless without some number of animal units per acre specified.
The grass on the higher spots simply hasn't grown any since July here.***Then you've got the wrong grasses planted for your soil type and annual rainfall!
I've never seen grass grow without water. We could have had that for a***Geez Louise, make up your mind. Now you're talking apples and oranges. Hell, you aren't even talking apples and oranges, you're talking apples and sausages!
lawn in S. California?
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