ranch
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Calves still need to be bought and sold, and ranch operations - many multi-generational - don not pause for politics.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The criminal charge came a week after the Pasadena Humane Society announced that the rare white fowl had recovered from its injuries and was relocated to a private ranch in Northern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
George W. Bush spent as much time as possible at the West Texas ranch he bought just before assuming the presidency.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
A public gravel road traverses the ranch on the way to a U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Immediately after breakfast, Abuelita drove us in an old four-door ranch truck.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Today, about 80% of America’s roughly quarter-million bison live on private ranches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
These ranches once supported families, small towns, local stores and restaurants, feed suppliers, truckers, veterinarians, and entire rural communities.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
“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
Some dairy farms send calves out to third-party calf ranches for rearing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Some time back the other members of the squad that walked so smartly from the school had turned into the various little canyons and taken the wagon roads to their own home ranches.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
And now that anything can be ranched, everything is getting ranched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
In the 1880s, Theodore Roosevelt hunted and ranched as a young man in the Badlands of what is now western North Dakota.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 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
Others at the town hall, however, expressed fury that the two remaining ranching families were now trying to upend the deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Yak ranching is growing, but it’s still a niche market,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
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
The U.S. urgently needs a cattle policy worthy of its ranching tradition.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
To Ranzi's surprise, in his home state of Acre—Brazil's westernmost region, a ranching center—PRONAPABA discovered half a dozen large circular ditches carved into the newly cleared land.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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