| 11. | Much of the farming is dryland farming, often with fallow seasons interspersed with cultivation.
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| 12. | The economy is based on agricultural dryland farming, vineyards, and domestic sheep keeping.
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| 13. | Dryland farming declined during the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s, but ranching survived.
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| 14. | Today, Mesa is a small town supported by dryland farming, irrigated farming, and livestock.
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| 15. | The great bustard ( " Otis tarda " ) frequents the plains cleared for dryland farming.
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| 16. | There is some irrigated farming, but much of the land is used for dryland farming or ranching.
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| 17. | Irrigation differs from dryland farming ( farming relying on rainfall ) in Australia in its level of production.
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| 18. | Homesteading in the area became common beginning in 1914, and dryland farming expanded throughout the Great Sage Plain.
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| 19. | Today dryland farming of pinto beans and winter wheat is still a mainstay of the county's economy.
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| 20. | When railroads arrived they also brought new settlers, and the economy began a shift from ranching to dryland farming.
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