As world prices fell and production costs, exacerbated by drought, rose, there was less incentive to raise cattle.

For a period of time, cattle farmers illegally smuggled beef cattle to Guatemala and other neighboring countries where prices were higher, but the Honduran cattle sector never became competitive internationally.

On the East Coast, farmlands were improved, and high prices for cattle brought money to the community.

As of late 2007, increased farming for use in biofuels, along with world oil prices at nearly $ 100 a barrel, has pushed up the price of grain used to feed poultry and dairy cows and other cattle, causing higher prices of wheat ( up 58 %), soybean ( up 32 %), and maize ( up 11 %) over the year.

With east Kimberley cattlemen keen to find a way to get their cattle to market, and the Government of Western Australia keen for competition to bring prices down, a 1905 proposal of a stock route through the desert was taken seriously.

Furthermore cattle prices were low.

They noted that income can fluctuate substantially from year to year, depending on rainfall ( which affects harvest yields ) as well as grain and cattle prices, and that the 2000 Census recorded low incomes in 1999 after several years of drought.

Prompted by the depression in the prices of dairy produce and cattle in the mid-1880 as well as bad weather for a number of years, many tenant farmers unable to pay their rents were left under the threat of eviction.

Furthermore cattle prices were low.

Under Portuguese rule, his father, a native, was forced to accept lower prices for his crops than white farmers ; compelled to grow labor-intensive cotton, which took time away from the food crops needed for his family ; and forbidden to brand his mark on his cattle to prevent thievery.

" As a basis for the damages sought in the lawsuit, the plaintiffs noted that cattle futures dropped 10 percent the day after the episode, and that beef prices fell from 62 cents to 55 cents per pound.

Instead of exporting live cattle ( which were often exhausted by the long journey to market and so fetched low prices ), they began to export salt beef in barrels to get better prices.

Since the Nuer were pastoralists, much of their livelihood was based on cattle husbandry, and bride-prices were paid in cattle ; prices may have changed as a result of cattle depletion.

However timing was bad for the XIT as cattle prices crashed in 1886 and 1887.

In the Civil War, initially, the disruption of the flow of cattle to market caused a drop in beef prices.

Paraguay's largest reserves of undeveloped fertile virgin forest covered land and lowest land prices are found in Alto Paraguay ; thus, agriculture and cattle farming are starting to make inroads.

Immediately after the war, he and the Lenape Black Beaver collected stray Texas cattle and drove them to railheads over the Chisholm Trail, shipping them back East to feed citizens, where beef commanded much higher prices than in the West.

Grazing of cattle and sheep was formerly a major revenue earner for the region but this has slowly declined.

By 1900, cattle grazing was slowly giving way to a thriving fruit industry, known particularly for apples and pears.

especially in slowly breeding animals such as cattle, one cannot cull even half the females, even though only one in a hundred of them combines the various qualities desired.

During the New Kingdom the Zebu, hump-backed cattle from Syria were introduced to Egypt and the earlier form seems to have slowly been replaced by these new cattle.

To hold a herd of cattle on a new range till they felt at home was called `` locatin' '' 'em.

The wholesale death of cattle as a result of blizzards, and sometimes droughts, over a wide range of territory was called a `` die-up ''.

`` Shootin' 'em out '' was gettin' cattle out of a corral onto the range.

After a roundup the pushin' of stray cattle of outside brands toward their home range was called `` throwin' over ''.

Countin' each grazin' bunch of cattle where it was found on the range and driftin' it back so that it didn't mix with the uncounted cattle was called a `` range count ''.

Later other smaller scale cattlemen, especially in central Texas, opposed the closing of the open range, and began cutting fences to allow cattle to pass through to find grazing land.

If there had been no Government program, if the old order had obtained in 1933 and 1934, that drought on the cattle ranges of America and in the corn belt would have resulted in the marketing of thin cattle, immature hogs and the death of these animals on the range and on the farm, and if the old order had been in effect those years, we would have had a vastly greater shortage than we face today.

From the moment that Wyatt and his brothers are discovered on the wide and dusty range, trailing a herd of cattle to a far-off promised land, a tone of pictorial authority is struck — and it is held.

In April, 1892, Johnson County was the scene of the Johnson County War, a range war between large cattle outfits and small stockgrowers ( allegedly rustlers ).

Large numbers of cattle were turned loose on the open range by large ranches.

Primary food sources include ungulates such as deer, elk, moose, and bighorn sheep, as well as domestic cattle, horses and sheep, particularly in the northern part of its range.

" At some time in that range a people possessing sheep, pigs, cattle, and growing grains and pulses took up residence on the elevation.

The number of range cattle increased to nearly 13, 000, but all other livestock decreased.

The first settlers were cattlemen who used the open range at will and moved cattle northward along the Great Western Cattle Trail.

Disputes over grazing rights, exacerbated by the introduction of wheat farming, led to the eruption of range wars between cattle ranchers and sheep herders.

Secondly, far from being an " enforcer " for the stockmen, and a murderer, Nate Champion was a well-liked small rancher in Johnson County, whom the rich stockmen dubbed " king of the rustlers " because he stood up against their tactic of claiming all unbranded young cattle on the range.

The eastern portion of the county is located in the highest peaks of the San Juan Mountains, around the old mining and modern tourist town of Rico, and except for cattle grazing in the San Juan National Forest, has virtually no agriculture, in part because its elevations range from 9, 000 to 14, 000 +.

Prior to that time, the Catalina Foothills area was primarily federal trust land and open range for cattle grazing.

Later, during the 1930s and 1940s, cattle ranching became popular as tick-borne diseases were being controlled with a state-sponsored irradication program and a fence law was passed by the state legislature in 1949 ending the open range in Florida.

Many families raised cattle, which roamed freely on the open range of the prairie.

In French the name means a cattle range for grazing.