And that same truck platform supports a herd of big Chevy, GMC and Cadillac S.U.V.'s, as well as the smaller, gentler-driving Hummer, called the H2, and the Avalanche and Cadillac Escalade EXT -- essentially sport utilities with pickup beds.
But this is precisely why we need to support a herd of actions that will make it possible for more people to have access to real food: In short, we need more real farmers, not businessmen riding on half-million-dollar combines.
The land currently supports a small herd of registered Dexter cattle, and a chicken coop of New Hampshire Reds with a genetic line older than some of Carolyn's children.
Dozens of hippos lolled in the water, propping heads on each other's backsides for support, a herd of elephants was crossing to the far bank while some baboons came to drink at the water's edge.
Proceeds from the herd help support a contemplative order of Franciscan nuns.
However, increasing drought frequencies are unlikely to permit sufficient fodder growth to allow for adequate accumulation of a sustainable herd size to support a household through animal products alone.
Tuberculosis breakdowns have been reported in neighboring herds, and the area supports a substantial badger population.
Zimov's aim was to show that the area, which ten thousand years or so ago supported great herds of large mammals, was still capable of doing so.
Its nutritious grasses, however, had supported immense herds of bison, and the settlers, after pushing old crops well beyond their limits, gave way to the cattlemen with their picturesque ranch houses, their cow towns, and their cowboys.
The highly productive savannah ecosystem of East Africa has supported nomadic herding communities and vast wildlife populations for millennia (Ogutu et al. 2011; Norton-Griffiths et al. 1975).
