Ranching: Pastoral Nomadism In The United States

While pastoral nomadism is considered subsistence farming, ranching is a commercial agricultural practice. Pastoral nomadism is commonly dissing areas where the land is too dry to grow crops. This area includes north Africa and Central and Southwest Asia. The Maasai people from kenya and Tanzania are one example. The animals provide everything that the nomads need, including skin for clothes, milk and meat to eat and drink, and other parts for other uses. Sometimes the women and children will plant crops while the men take care of the animals. The size of a herd is a very important measure of wealth and power within these Nomad tribes. Nomads have many different kinds of animals, roughly depending on the area and the cost. For example, camels …show more content…
Although nomadism was once a very important part of survival, it is dying out because of Technology. Also, government have made efforts to resettle the nomads so that the land can be used for other more efficient or practical farming. Ranching is typical in developed countries. Ranching was very important to the United States in the 1800, to the cattle drives. As markets and prices increase for beef, many in the Southern United States around Texas begin to raise cattle. They would then ship their cattle off to get much higher prices in Chicago or other Northern cities. To get to the cities the cattle had to take trains, and to get to the trains, owners of the cattle would have to drive them there. This is how Cowboys came to be such important figures of popular culture. However, the farmers we're not very happy about large amounts of cattle trying on their land, and this eventually led to the demise of the cattle drives in the United States, because the cattle cannot get through to the railroads due to farms blocked with fences and barbed wire. In other regions such as Australia catalyst still Ranch to this