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> the famous Texas cattle ranches can basically only grow grass Why? Anyway, wheat is a grass.
by chimprich 7y ago
> the famous Texas cattle ranches can basically only grow grass
Why? Anyway, wheat is a grass.
- beat 7y agoNot all grasses are equally edible. Most aren't, in fact.
- mcphage 7y ago> Why? Not enough water.
- dredmorbius 7y agoWheat is the simple-starch-rich seed kernel of a hybridised grass. Much of Texas lacks water -- generally West Texas, a line extending from roughly Austin. In the US generally, the 100th parallel divides the moister east from the drier west. Topsoils are also far poorer than further east. There was an experiment conducted some years ago on dryland farming. It ended poorly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time is an excellent telling of this: https://books.google.com/books?id=np1RwDQfpjsC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=np1RwDQfpjsC&pg=PP1#v=onep...