ranch
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From private ranch vacations to concierge medicine, these are the ultraluxury perks top executives scored last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The Walkman disappeared long ago, but the sturdy, blue 1985 Toyota 4x4 pickup truck can still be found in the Texas Hill Country at Jeff Kent’s 3,000-acre ranch on the outskirts of San Antonio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Truck dealer Rush Enterprises awarded its CEO $107,000 in personal use of a company-owned, 11,000-acre Texas hunting ranch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
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
That it’s not an actual ranch but that we call it “the Ranch.”
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Watch the video above to explore how the myth of the American cowboy became a global obsession, from the ranches of Oklahoma to a Tokyo honky-tonk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Jim Locke, 50, who ranches near Miami, Texas, has been a volunteer for 24 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Since 1997, the United States has lost more than 450,000 cattle ranches.
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
I was trying to picture herds of balonies roaming around on ranches.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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This weekend, the delegation from Hidden Valley has been mobilized to the New York area—because anything can be 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
These ancient wetlands had been plundered for timber, then ranched, and finally acquired by the state in the 1970s to nurture back to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
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 U.S. urgently needs a cattle policy worthy of its ranching tradition.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Talbot said from the federal to the local level, everyone in the ranching community has been talking about the arrival of screwworm and how to combat it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
The only thing he might be just as passionate about as sports, it turns out, is ranching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
But the New Mexico State Land Commission cancelled the leases in September 2019 after the office determined that Epstein had used the tract as a privacy buffer - not for ranching or agriculture.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
Most of those inhabitants depended on ranching, but various droughts made survival almost impossible because of the lack of grazing land for cattle.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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