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Don’t Mess with Texas…or their Ranches

Faced with Dwindling Profits, Ranchers & Farmers Sell off Parcels   Texas farms and ranches drop in size year after year, a new study shows. Rural lands have an important economic role for Texas, but farms, ranches and forests declined between 1997 and 2006.  As land is parceled off to the highest bidder, the state’s natural resources vanish too. All told, there has been a loss of 2.1 million acres of agricultural lands since...

Buying Wild Horses from the Government

American Horses for Sale   Wild horses and burros have virtually no natural predators and their herd sizes can double about every four years.  As a result, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)...

Gov. Schwarzenegger Applauds Historic Tejon Ranch Agreement

Big Ranch Saved from Overdevelopment    Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a historic agreement between Tejon Ranch landowners and conservation and environmental groups that will...

Sheep and Wool Today

  How to Be a Better Sheep Rancher   The New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Growers Association of Epping, New Hampshire, has developed a website to better inform association members on sheep...

The Wild, Wild West: Five Ways to Make Ranching Profitable in the Future

Change Is Coming   With the invention of the electric fence in the 1930s, the western US became a haven for ranching. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grim news for ranchers: the...