11. Much of the farming is dryland farming , often with fallow seasons interspersed with cultivation. 12. The economy is based on agricultural dryland farming , vineyards, and domestic sheep keeping. 13. Dryland farming declined during the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s, but ranching survived.14. Today, Mesa is a small town supported by dryland farming , irrigated farming, and livestock. 15. The great bustard ( " Otis tarda " ) frequents the plains cleared for dryland farming . 16. There is some irrigated farming, but much of the land is used for dryland farming or ranching. 17. Irrigation differs from dryland farming ( farming relying on rainfall ) in Australia in its level of production. 18. Homesteading in the area became common beginning in 1914, and dryland farming expanded throughout the Great Sage Plain. 19. Today dryland farming of pinto beans and winter wheat is still a mainstay of the county's economy. 20. When railroads arrived they also brought new settlers, and the economy began a shift from ranching to dryland farming .
