rancher
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Matt Biehl, a 45-year-old cattle rancher, came from the village of Johnson Lake to hear Osborn, just weeks before the election.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
A couple of charming shots show them walking the site with rancher Ed Pozzi, who became one of their local champions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer, herself a cattle rancher, said lowering grocery prices cannot come “at the expense of American producers.”
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Among them were a former rural mayor, an ex-police commander, a bar owner, a rancher, a fireman and various entrepreneurs associated with mining and construction, industries heavily subject to extortion demands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
After stopping at several places and asking for work, we found a rancher who still had a few cotton fields to be picked.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
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The first is that miners abandoned some donkeys in the region during the gold rush; the second is that a group of ranchers drove over a population of burros from Death Valley in the 1950s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
His forecast is straightforward: “There will be more bison ranchers and more bison producers in 10 years than there are today.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
What Turner did for bison is now being done by smaller ranchers who see no conflict between margin and mission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The animals’ success has delighted conservationists but frustrated some cattle ranchers, whose livelihood can become dinner for the endangered canids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
As they neared the town of Easton, they began to pass shopping centers and development houses, little, low one-story ranchers with sprigs of new grass and one or two puny trees.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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