----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Webster"
Newsgroups: sci.agriculture
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 7:16 AM
Subject: Vegans, facts, ranting, bigotry and other related subjects....


:
: Michael Percy wrote in message
: ...
: Jim Webster wrote:
:
: by your definition of arid damn all will grow anyway
:
: The definition I suggested was land with less than 10 inches
: avg. annual rainfall.
:
: and have been told that ten inches isn't arid, see Oz's post.
: Also rainfall doesn't define fertility, available water determines
: rainfall, the fertile cresent has a pretty low rainfall, as has the Nile
: valley.
:
Fog can be enough for forage for elephants and example is the Skeleton Coast
of Africa.

Rainfall, timeliness of rainfall temperature, altitude, latitude and local
modifying conditions all make enormous differences in arid areas.

Things are a lot more complicated in dry areas.

Goats can make a living on real slim pickings. Cattle are for the good
pasture. Goats are the true wonder animal for the poor in arid areas.

Gordon

Gordon Couger
Stillwater, OK
www.couger.com/gcouger