Homesteading in the area became common beginning in 1914, and dryland farming expanded throughout the Great Sage Plain.

With the passage of new homestead laws in 1909 enabling homesteaders to take out larger acreages, the area saw an influx of dryland farmers.

A successful Milwaukee Land Company campaign to attract homesteaders to the area allowed the city to grow and serve a large community of dryland farmers.

This gives Del Rio and adjacent areas the effect of being in a coastal dryland area, even though the Gulf of Mexico is over away.

The Central Basin plateau was settled in the late 1800s by immigrants of Russian-German ( Bessarabian ) ancestry who homesteaded in the area and farmed dryland wheat.

As the pumped water is being used much more rapidly than it is replenished, eventually Llano farmers will be forced to employ dryland cropping systems or return the area to its natural state of sparse grassland.

It covers the dryland farming area south of the range of Mallee scrub, east of the South Australia border and north of the Great Dividing Range.

The area of Victoria to the west of Sunraysia is known as the Millewa, the main distinction being that Sunraysia is the irrigated area and Millewa is the dryland cropping area.

Oyen is the service centre for a large but sparsely populated dryland farming area.

The surrounding area is primarily dryland farming with barley, wheat, olives, dates, citrus fruits, figs, and grapes raised for export.

Loxton is also the main town for the northern part of the Murray Mallee which is a dryland farming and grain cropping area.

The dryland rim varies in width from a few hundred metres to 2. 4 km.

While dryland ( non-irrigated ) cotton is successfully grown in this region, consistent yields are only produced with heavy reliance on irrigation water drawn from the Ogallala Aquifer.

When railroads arrived they also brought new settlers, and the economy began a shift from ranching to dryland farming.

During the 1920s farmers turned from cotton to dryland fruit and vegetable farming.

The city takes its name from a dry lake, a unique dryland plains geographic feature situated atop the divide between the Rio Grande and Colorado River watersheds, located less than two miles south of the city, through which St Hwy 137 passes.

Morels have been called by many local names ; some of the more colorful include dryland fish, because when sliced lengthwise then breaded and fried, their outline resembles the shape of a fish ; hickory chickens, as they are known in many parts of Kentucky ; and merkels or miracles, based on a story of how a mountain family was saved from starvation by eating morels ( the spelling of the word " merkel " reflects the pronunciation of the word " miracle " in the Appalachian dialect common to the south ).

Although they frequently live in dryland forests, tapirs with access to rivers spend a good deal of time in and under the water, feeding on soft vegetation, taking refuge from predators, and cooling off during hot periods.

*" Drylands ": The arrival of dryland farming to Colorado from the perspective of the Grebe family.

Nevertheless, the traditional definition of the Palouse region is distinct from the older Walla Walla region south of the Snake River, where dryland farming of wheat was first proved viable in the region in the 1860s.

Dryland mushing is distinguished from sulky driving in that the cart, or dryland rig, is attached to the dog in the same manner as a team to a sled.

The aridity of the region necessitates either dryland farming methods or irrigation ; much water for irrigation is drawn from the underlying Ogallala Aquifer, which makes it possible to grow water-intensive crops such as corn, which the region's aridity would otherwise not support.

Desertification is the degradation of land in any dryland.

Hugelkultur is practiced by Sepp Holzer as a method of forest gardening and agroforestry, and by Geoff Lawton as a method of dryland farming and desert greening.

It is an excellent crop for dryland and no-till farming.

In contrast, agriculture that relies only on direct rainfall is referred to as rain-fed or dryland farming.

Winter wheat production quickly spread throughout the Great Plains, and was, as it still is, usually grown using the techniques of dryland farming.

Annual rainfall is greater than in the east, and there are flat areas of arable land that provide a home for dryland cultivators.

For example, the clearing of trees for agriculture is a major reason for dryland salinity in some areas, since deep rooting of trees has been replaced by shallow rooting of annual crops.

Today dryland farming of pinto beans and winter wheat is still a mainstay of the county's economy.

The western portion of the county ( east of the Dolores River Canyon and along the Utah border ) is the northern portion of the Great Sage Plain, relatively low ( 6500 – 7500 feet in elevation ) and flat ( but cut by large canyons, including that of the Dolores River itself ), and consists of irrigated and dryland farming areas ; it is especially well known for the cultivation of various varieties of beans, including pinto beans and many variety of old Anasazi beans.

Only 38 % of the county is private land, located mostly in two large areas at the extreme western end of the county ( dryland and irrigated cropland and towns along US 491 ) and in the central portion of the county ( grazing land ), with a few thousand acres in scattered parcels ( mostly patented mining claims ) in the eastern portion of the county around Rico.

The immediate land surrounding Helix is used almost exclusively for dryland farming.

Today, Mesa is a small town supported by dryland farming, irrigated farming, and livestock.

* Carting, also known as dryland mushing or sulky driving, is an urban alternative to dog sledding.

A dryland is a place where annual potential evaporation exceeds annual precipitation.

Winter wheat is the typical crop although skilled dryland farmers sometimes grow corn, beans or even watermelons.

Successful dryland farming is possible with as little as of precipitation a year ; higher rainfall increases the variety of crops.

Since healthy topsoil is critical to sustainable dryland agriculture, its preservation is generally considered the most important long-term goal of a dryland farming operation.

It is a research facility, which tests different crops, diseases, chemicals under dryland and irrigation.

of dry evergreen forests with gentle undulating terrain open wet and dryland type enclosures, specially developed to simulate natural environment for the animals.