In colloquial terms, yes, both male and female bovines are used to make beef or "cow meat."
Yes.
Yes.
Most, if not all.
Not all ranchers do. Microchipping every animal can be quite expensive, and it's often much more cheaper to use eartags to track their cattle.
After the Civil War Texas ranchers drove cattle in herds to Kansas because that is where the big stockyards were at the time. It was also a place for the Texas ranchers to use the railroad for shipping cattle elsewhere.
Ranchers or those crazy folks who buy a piece of land and use it only for grazing cattle.
Ranchers wanted to use the land to graze their cattle on and make money off of their cattle, whereas the farmers wanted to use that same land to grow their crops. Farmers didn't like (and they still don't) cattle free-ranging across their fields, and a bit of friction was caused between ranchers with their free-ranging cattle and the farmers who just wanted to plant a few plots of wheat for their families.
Example sentence - Many ranchers are now raising bison rather than cattle.
Example sentence - Many ranchers are now raising bison rather than cattle.
They herded them using horses and the best herding practices they could use to move cattle with and keep them together.
It depends which area of the world you are in, if speaking of the Natives in Brazilian rain forests the conflict stems from the Natives use of poisonous blow darts to kill cattle while the ranchers are poaching the idolized red monkeys indigenous to the area.
for the meat... the farmers for the extra help
Because outdoors cattle will burn off the energy that is used for meat production. If they are kept indoors they will have more energy to use for the conversion of feed into meat.