Subsidies to ranch-like wheat and barley farms have helped to make France one of the world's great cereals exporters.
IT is 10 50 a.m. on a Tuesday, a couple of hours after I've arrived here amid the cattle ranches and wheat farms, and Mrs. Borntrager is deep into an eighth-grade math lesson on symmetry, using a mirror and a book of drawings to show how even complex shapes can sometimes be divided exactly in half.
From a hot, dry expanse of cattle ranches and wheat farms to the irrigated epicenter of the post-World War II housing boom, the trajectory of Van Nuys in the 20th century was one of real estate development at breakneck speed.
Most of the decline was in wheat, ranching and oil country in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota and the Dakotas.
The areas lying between the streams are broad, little-dissected, smoothly rolling surfaces that provide the land for Oregon's large wheat ranches.
Small squares predominate where small-scale farming is common and very large ones where wheat and ranching prevail.
Cattle ranching and farming of wheat, barley and corn still prevail, especially on large corporate farms in the middle and southern plains.
Its importance as an entrepôt was further enhanced after 1900, when wheat cultivation and ranching took hold in the region.
It is also the service centre for an extensive agricultural region, noted for ranching and the cultivation of wheat.
Among the Australians in Bali were players and supporters of the Rugby Club of Forbes, a wheat and sheep ranching area of 8,500 people 200 miles northwest of here.
