My cousin has a ranch in the west. The land is incredibly poor, diatomaious earth (she finds dinasaur bones!), has very little natural water (and some of what l

My cousin has a ranch in the west. The land is incredibly poor, diatomaious earth (she finds dinasaur bones!), has very little natural water (and some of what little water she does have is hot spring water), and where grass grows the land is covered in sparse bunch grass. Her head of cattle to land ratio is some crazy number like 100 acres to a cow/calf pair. Could be less IDK exactly. Consequnetly she owns thousands of acres to feed her cattle. There is not enough water there to irrigate non-native edible species over her thousands acre ranch. She'd drain every creek, stream, and river to make a farm happen there.