An area in which the main industry is farming sheep or cattle.
they farmed in the fine grazing districts of the south-east
Example sentencesExamples
- The legislation of 1934 eventually established grazing districts and a permit system on about 165 million acres of federal land.
- It is the only newspaper in the rich farming and grazing district in the northwest of New South Wales.
- In the fine farming and grazing districts of the continent's south-eastern corner, the climate was relatively favourable.
- He conveyed the impression that the new grazing districts somehow conferred range rights.
- Cooperative grazing districts should be assisted to prevent the overstocking of their lands.
- The federal grazing district in Vegas was established in 1936, and the Bureau of Land Management was established in 1946.
- The act was supposed to conserve the rangelands by establishing grazing districts, but the districts were put under control of boards dominated by landed stockmen.
- They formed associations that manned line camps, where the "line" was the property line between customary grazing districts.
- There was a prime grazing district in the Cape of Good Hope which he was offering to lease to the highest bidder.
- It forces the bureau to first declare that lands within grazing districts are no longer "chiefly valuable for grazing" before allowing a permit to be retired.