CLIMATE, PASTURE PRODUCTION AND IRRIGATION

Abstract

THE HISTORY of agriculture is mainly a record of man's struggle to adapt his farming to the climate in which he lived, and also of his efforts to become independent of that climate. It is no accident that many of the myths and legends of early man were very much concerned with events closely related to the farming year. Early meetings of a primitive version of Federated Farmers were possibly concerned more with ensuring that the sun returned after mid-winter, with the promise of spring, than with the barter value of the grain crop.