Ranch articles, editorials and views from the field
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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 o...
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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 res...
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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 a...
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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 bette...
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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 f...