In article >, Rhonda Anderson > wrote:
>Miche > wrote in
:
>> In article >,
>> "Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:
>>> [...] Of course the farmers (and NZ ranchers)
>>> are going to sell their products at the most lucrative
>>> market. I suppose if you *were* an Idaho potato farmer or a New
>>> Zealand lamb rancher you could get the pick of the bunch, but
>>> everybody else has to pay the going rate.
>>
>> We don't call 'em "ranchers". They're farmers, same as the guys who
>> grow wheat.
>
>I was waiting to see if you replied - I know we don't use rancher here,
>and thought it was probably the same for you guys but wasn't positive.
>
>The really large livestock properties are often called stations rather
>than farms, and those who run sheep and cattle might get called
>graziers, but mostly they're just all farmers :-)

That might be true down in your civilised part of Oz, but up here
you'd be lucky to even find a tractor on some of the cattle stations!

(Okay, okay; a bit of an exageration, I know... Most would have at
least an old grey Fergie. :-)

Cheers, Phred.

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