ranch
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Tijerina and his wife have ownership interests in a number of Laredo businesses, including a hemp farm which produces CBD products, an oil and gas exploration firm, a ranch and a real estate development company.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
As the fireworks clear from Spain’s 1-0 victory over Argentina Sunday, let’s take a moment to bask in the afterglow and pungent ranch dressing burps of the just-completed 2026 North American World Cup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Even before Sunday’s championship match between Spain and Argentina, there had been some clear winners at the World Cup that was co-hosted by the U.S., ranging from Cape Verde’s goalie to ranch salad dressing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 19, 2026
U.S. sales of bottled ranch dressing topped $1.5 billion over the past year, making ranch even bigger than ketchup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
They lived ten miles out of town, on a small horse ranch.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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“God bless her. She let me go out and live on ranches and run with other people to get away from him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
He donated his roughly 80,000-acre McGinley Ranch in Nebraska to the nonprofit and said in the future, he would consider donating four more Nebraska ranches spanning 445,000 acres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
She said cattle herds were at lows not seen since the 1950s and that the industry had lost more than 100,000 ranches in the last 10 years.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
But the country's forests are still threatened by agriculture, which remains the largest driver of forest loss to make room for soy fields and cattle ranches.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
I was trying to picture herds of balonies roaming around on ranches.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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And now that anything can be ranched, everything is getting ranched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Park visitors, much to their delight, often encounter the horses while driving or hiking in the rolling, colorful Badlands where a young, future President Theodore Roosevelt hunted and ranched in the 1880s.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
Wegis and her husband, Jim, have been running their family farm since 1979 near lands where his ancestors homesteaded and ranched in the 1800s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
When Letseoma was growing up in this house, her father had farmed and ranched and had owned horses, cattle, sheep, and chickens.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2021
As Grandpa got older he ranched less and farmed more, until one day he stopped farming.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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The show depicts the power struggles between patriarch John Dutton III, his children, the locals, and the outsiders seeking to change their bucolic ranching way of life.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Making beef affordable again will only happen by rebuilding the domestic U.S. ranching base.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Larry McMurtry was born into a Texas ranching family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
I know: I wrote a lengthy cover story on beef and ranching in this week’s Barron’s.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
In the dusty business of ranching he seemed always immaculate.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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