rancher
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Tom Donati, a fourth-generation rancher in California’s Sacramento Valley, runs an annual cattle auction where hundreds of ranchers gather to look at breeding bulls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Nebraska rancher Yvette Mannon was already having a rough year.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
“It’s affecting us directly,” rancher Caleb Valdez said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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
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
Lines at the sale barns swelled across the U.S. as ranchers rushed to sell their cattle to reduce the number of mouths they had to feed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
A broad coalition of environmentalists, cattle ranchers, farmers, river boat guides, outdoor activists and church leaders had gone to court in El Paso seeking to stop the construction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
“We are standing with the powers that ought to be — the teachers and the nurses, the farmers and the ranchers, the grandmother who is facing eviction.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
But while truckers appreciate the gesture, most dyed diesel is already committed by fuel distributors to the farmers and ranchers who are their regular customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
“We’re not ranchers, Mary Eve. We’ve got a few head of cattle. Not even enough to call a herd. Besides, it’s not like we’re the only folks taking such a deal.”
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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