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You still have things pretty good. 97% of Egypt is desert. The 3% that is arable is gradually and not so gradually being turned urban. The things you do to get hay or any fodder at all here would not be believed. Our farms are tiny and you have to work with lots of them just to feed a small group of 15 horses like I have. If you knew how many people have lectured me on what a waste of space my paddock is.... "Do you know that you could have 40 horses if you put them in boxes?"

Maryanne

On 6/15/07, Barbara McCrary <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Driving throughout CA and seeing good pastureland converted to vineyards
just sickens my husband and me.  Of course, we are cattlemen, through and
through, so seeing pastureland converted is very sad.  Then, when the person
who plants vineyards either looses his interest or his shirt, the vineyards
are abandoned, along with the posts, wire trellises, and drip lines.  It's
costly to remove and convert back to pasture.  There's nothing much prettier
than a herd of cattle grazing contentedly on a nice hilly pasture.
Sigh.....

Barbara

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Kinsky" <lkinsky@xxxxxxxxxx >
To: "Stacy Sadar" <stacy_sadar@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] The hay situation


> There is plenty of California wine for drowning sorrows.  In our region *a
> lot* of grazing land and hay fields have been converted to vineyards.  Too
> bad the horses can't live on wine (but they love to munch on grape
> leaves).
> --
>
>  Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA
>  http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/



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