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Because they saw the potential for keeping their animals on their land and making feed for them as a better means to care for their animals. Hard lessons where also learned during the 1887 Wicked Winter that killed thousands of cattle because of overgrazing and lack of winter feed, and also during the 1930's when dust storms blew up because, again, of mass overgrazing and tillage of the soil. More and more people were coming in and settling on land nearby, and they didn't want any cattle to be trampling over their crops and property, so ranchers and farmers had to fence in their property and their animals to make their neighbors happy, and also to better make sure that their animals are on the land they should be on.

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Q: Why did ranchers begin fencing the range and growing feed for their cattle?
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