What is the difference between ranching and farming?

Answer 1

While it is not an absolute, ranching typically refers to breeding and production of new beef calves on open range or pasture, and fattening is the final stage of beef production done in the feedlot. In the case of grass-fed beef, the final stage is done on open range.

Ranching is also a word that sometimes is used more in the western US than in other areas. In some places of the west, even crop farms are called ranches.

Answer 2

ranching is with animals farming is farming crops