Ranching

Because there was such a high demand for meat and leather. And the cattle owners did not have to own but simply a few acres of land by the water in the west to keep thousands of cattle, the rest of the land belonged to the states. And the cost of transportation was so cheap.

Barbed-wire. When farmers started putting up barbed-wire fences, cattle drives couldn't get to the feilds forthe cows to graze.

They were huge areas of open grassland once occupied by the great American Plains Bison.

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Cattle ranchers moved north due to factors such as cheaper land prices, better grazing areas, and lower competition for resources. The northern regions also offered more land for expansion and development of their cattle operations.

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they branded their cattle (they heated a metal rod with a specific symbol at the end and burned it into their skin).

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Cattle can provide meat, milk, draft power, and fiber. They are also used as companions and riding animals with surprising frequency. Cattle can also be used as show animals, living lawnmowers, companions for horses, and as rodeo stock. Most are raised for profit and as a means to manage grasslands as bison once had, except that the bison population is too small to be able to be used on such native grasslands.

Raising cattle also enables a person with experience and knowledge of how cattle behave, how to feed them, breed them, etc. This experience and knowledge can be used to teach other people who want to get into the business of raising cattle, and to share methods that you have learned with other experienced cattle producers. Raising cattle enables a person to get involved in managing and learning how the natural cycles and nature works according to how the grass and seasonal cycles work, especially if you are one to be raising cattle on grass only. Raising cattle also gives you a much more in-depth sight of what it takes to care for such animals that other people, especially those who live in cities, could never understand or appreciate.

They adapted to theWest by learning how to farm in the worst conditions. Also they learned how to travel with their cattle shorter distances because if they traveled a long way the cattle will become skinny and not be worth as much. As they traveled shorter distances the cattle stayed fat and were worth a lot of money.

owners branded cattle that roamed freely, and then cowboys rounded them up

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Because cattle can be grazed for 365 days a year, and most often feed doesn't have to be put up to sustain cattle through a cold winter or a season where there's little to no grazing.

Anything from beef producers, backgrounders, stockmen, to feedlot owners.

To minimize the length of the fence, we can denote the length of the rectangle as ( l ) and the width as ( w ). The area constraint gives us ( l \times w = 500,000 ). The total length of the fence, including the dividing fence, is ( 2l + 3w ). To minimize this, we can express ( w ) in terms of ( l ) and use calculus or substitution, ultimately finding that the optimal dimensions are ( l = 1000 ) feet and ( w = 500 ) feet, resulting in a minimum fence length of 3,000 feet.

Cows are treated well at ranches. They are well looked after in terms of being fed well, health problems being taken care of, making sure the cows calve out alright, and put on fresh pastures when necessary. Crazy cows or bulls tend to cull themselves out during times when they have to be moved or processed, as well as cows that are consistently thin during the year when they shouldn't be. The cowboys that work there know the cattle, and know how to work them without getting them too stressed out. Stress is bad in any cattle operation, as is malnutrition and having unthrifty animals.

There are many good and bad causes that people see associated with cattle ranching. Here's a lost of both:

Good:

- Healthy cattle (less sickness with extensive management and natural diet)

- Healthy grass (good grazing practices induce vigorous grass growth)

- Low labour costs (cattle are feeding themselves and not being fed)

- Minimal manure management (Mother Nature takes care of that on the pastures)

- Environmentally friendly, as manure and urine goes back into the soil to help plants grow, and grass makes cattle fat and happy

- Range cattle produce beef that is healthy for people to eat, containing lower and healthier fat than feedlot grain-fed beef.

Bad:

- Overgrazing (always comes with poor grazing practices)

- Deforestation (which is synonymous with what is happening in South America)

- Requires fencing to keep animals in and to keep animals out of riparian areas

- Higher methane production with cattle grazing on pasture versus being fed in a feedlot

- Grass-fed beef can be something that people don't like, preferring grain-fed over grass-fed.

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