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Rhonda Anderson[_1_]

(Steve Pope) wrote in news:grthq5$voa$4
@blue.rahul.net:

> Becca > wrote:
>
>>Steve Pope wrote:
>
>>> Whereas in the U.S. you have Pecan Ranchers, etc.
>
>>I thought, if you raised livestock it was a ranch, if you grew plants
it
>>was a farm.
>
> Yes!
>
> Steve

Not here (or in NZ from Miche's posts) though - we don't use the term
ranch at all.

In terms of properties which run livestock only the closest equivalent
might be station for ranch (but that's usually only used for pretty
large places) and grazier for rancher.

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Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Core of my heart, my country! Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine she pays us back threefold.
My Country, Dorothea MacKellar, 1904