I was stationed in was rural, with rolling hills, orchards, and patchwork fields with corn, safflower, cabbage, barley and grass.
Farmers usually graze their cattle and sheep for a few days in one area, then move on to another.
Often, the land they graze belongs to someone else, and has crops adjacent to it, so they cannot fence it, and need a good herding dog to stop the stock from straying into the land owners' crops. He has 600 head, so when he comes on post, the sheep clog the road until they are all through the gate and onto the grassy areas. He has three Border Collie type dogs, about 75-80 pounds. He calls them Schottische Colleys. The dogs 'wear' the sheep when he goes down the village strests, and out to his grazing areqa, and once there, he sits under a tree with the dogs, and watches them graze.