Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in areas where once nothing but cacti and sagebrush could live.
irrigation
abundantly plentifully
cacti
cactus sagebrush
agrarian
arable
aride
barren
cactus
sagebrush
fertilise
herbicide
bale loader
clod crusher
field roller
mower
thresher
flora
willow
poplar
palm
pine
algae
fern
moss
tundra
scrubland
bark
trunk
twig