Miche > wrote in
:

> In article >,
> "Bob Terwilliger" > wrote:
>

>> I've heard similar things about Idaho and potatoes: Although Idaho
>> has acre after acre of potato fields, it's apparently very difficult
>> and expensive to buy Idaho potatoes there. 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 :-)

--
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