Yeah, even an arbitrary ten-second glance at google will let you know that it's substantially worse to have grazing land for cattle than it is to have cropping

Yeah, even an arbitrary ten-second glance at google will let you know that it's substantially worse to have grazing land for cattle than it is to have cropping land. Beef, on average, requires 16726m^3 per ton of product, whereas wheat requires 1437m^3/ton http://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Report12.pdf http://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Report12.pdf Not to mention that to successfully raise cattle year-round, you need to rotate feed crops for them as well. So you require not only land and resources for the cattle themselves, but also for their feed.