Ranchers or those crazy folks who buy a piece of land and use it only for grazing cattle.
They deforest the Amazon rainforest. But they earn money for the Brazilian Beef Company. They are what some say ruining the rainforest. I say they are making better use of it.
ranching and agriculture,use irrigation and raise sheep and cattle
Huge pieces of land were fenced for cattle ranching.
TO LIVE! the rainforests are a main supply of oxygen for us! We use the Amazon for logging hydro electric power cattle ranching mining.
land use changes and other economic activities have eliminated the open range.
The completion of the railroad and the increased use of barbed wire to fence off farming/ranching properties.
logging and then the land can be turned into mines,cattle ranching and buildings and new roads
It's used for ranching, to raise cattle and other livestock on.
Example sentence for the adjective 'wasteful':The company's review of wasteful practices is an effort to save money.
Ranchers wanted to use the land to graze their cattle on and make money off of their cattle, whereas the farmers wanted to use that same land to grow their crops. Farmers didn't like (and they still don't) cattle free-ranging across their fields, and a bit of friction was caused between ranchers with their free-ranging cattle and the farmers who just wanted to plant a few plots of wheat for their families.
Nowadays, cattle are loaded onto cattle trucks or trains. Though "cowboys" still use horses for daily chores of looking after the cattle on the range surrounding the ranch, the long cattle drives over several weeks to a distant market are a thing of the past. Most of the old drove route have vanished beneath modern farms and housing.