A large area of the North East of Brazil is divided into large ranches owned by a few families.
There are still many cattle in the state, but they are divided up into small herds, no longer depending upon the open range for a precarious subsistence during the winter, but are sheltered and fed during winter storms on the hay ranches.
A British company acquired large land concessions along the line and started ranches.
Because there are plenty of country music superstars that live on sprawling ranches cleaning out horse stalls, feeding the chickens and working the fields right?
Its northern limit is shared between several private ranches.