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Ranching
Ranching is an extensive way of raising livestock, primarily grazing cattle, sheep and horses, but also involves production of many other animals. The term ranch is used loosely as it is primarily up to the owner's discretion whether his/her locale is a farm or ranch, but it is commonly known as a very large tract of land that is often used in its native state. The historical and current practices of ranching and rangeland management among other things pertaining to ranching can be discussed in this category.
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How did corporations make life harder for small farmers in the 1880s?
by controlling railroads and charging high prices for shipping
How did corporations hurt the small farmer and rancher?
Corporations manage on a mass-production scale of producing food for people, be it dairy, beef, or crop production. When they produce on a mass-production scale, they are taking up more and more land as they grow, pushing out the smaller farmer and rancher. Corporations also tend to monopolize a particular market, driving market prices down (prices always increase when there is competition on the market), reducing competition, and subsequently putting the smaller family farms on a precarious position as far as income is concerned. These big corporations also tend to higher cheap labour, often hiring illegal immigrants from places like Mexico.
Corporations have controlled prices to the point where they are able to gain more income than the average farmer. Buying out smaller corporations and companies and merging into others has enabled this monopolization, and subsequently price control on not only market prices for livestock, and crops, but also costs of fertilizers, fuel and feed. Small farmers and ranchers have no choice but to either follow along like marionettes, or quit, or find a niche market to decrease their own costs and increase their profit margins where these big corporations can't.
In the USA, corporations are so big that they can overpower the government itself. Monsanto is a good example of this. A lot of the Senate is people that have worked for Monsanto, and thus are able to be influenced by these big companies to either keep their mouths shut about certain things, or control the USDA's decisions on proper food safety and meat testing, something that the small farms can't get away with, but the bigger corporations can. The NAIS (National Animal Identification System) was actually not proposed by the USDA, but by the big corporations themselves. Then to add to the pain and pressure to the small farmers, these same big companies opted out of the NAIS proposal, instead directing it at the small farmers and ranchers. The NAIS really was another scheme to get more money out of family farms and ranches and push more families to the point of no return so these corporations could control more land.
In Canada, meat packing and distribution is controlled by two main powerhouses: Cargil and XL Foods. These two companies have taken over all of the other federally inspected plants that was started up by local producers, most feedlots, and have subsequently been monopolizing the live cattle market prices. With only two competing companies, there certainly isn't very much competition going on. Like the big agricultural companies in the USA, these two companies in Canada are gaining profits where the small farmers and ranchers are going deeper in the red.
In the sandy hills ranchers are careful to prevent overgrazing why are they being careful?
Concerns for erosion.
What do cattle ranchers put on a pole that cows rub on to keep flies off?
It's is an oil that repels flies and other insects.
Why does the government let cattle ranching happen?
People have a habit of eating. It is still a free country.
Why did cattle ranching become profitable in the west?
Cattle ranching became profitable because ranchers bought land cheap and when they did they bought a lot of it. They could have thousands of head of cattle and could ship them East by the railroad. People in the East needed and wanted good quality fresh beef and would pay good money for it. Ranchers could have several thousand head of cattle because they had enough land to keep them and they could hire men easily and pay them only a small fraction of the profits from selling the cattle,which left most of the money to the rancher.
Describe how cattle ranching changed the west?
Cattle ranching changed the west because it encouraged more people to settle the west and buy the land. It also brought in the railroad which was also used for transportation of people to the west instead of wagon trains. It was much easier travel by train and much faster. It also encouraged barbed wire fencing that let people regulate their own land and settlers could claim and protect their property and livestock.
When was the cattle introduced to the us?
In the early 1600s, even though the first cattle that came to North America (being Mexico and the West Indies) 200 years earlier.
Totsonii Ranch is located at Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Is a farm and ranch the same thing?
Not really. Farms can be the same size as ranches but are more directed to grow cash crops than animals, though farms can be either or both. Farms are also known to raise more than one type of animal, or intensively raise stock like finisher cattle, pigs, and farm fowl. Ranches are a more extensive means of raising livestock, primarily cattle and/or horses, with all crops and land being used to raise/feed animals, unlike with most farms. Ranches are usually found in the western parts of Canada and the United states. Farms can be found almost anywhere in the world.
However, it's interesting to note that anyone can call their farm or ranch a farm or ranch, no matter what size it is. It is a common belief that a ranch has to be a piece of land that is over 1000 acres in size and raises only cattle and horses with limited crop growth and focus only on pasture and range production. This, in today's world, isn't necessarily true. There are ranches that raise sheep, goats, bison, elk, deer and even creepy-crawly creatures like worms and crickets and such. A person can call their place a ranch even if it's only 10 acres in size and qualifies as a "hobby farm." And, a ranch can still be a ranch even when there's extensive crop production that is used only for feeding the animals in the winter or with the feedlot operation that coincides with the whole ranch business. Ranches, though, are mostly centered around those extensive animal breeding/production systems in North America, Central America and South America.
A farm, on the other hand, is more well-known to be an operation that often focuses on plant production, from trees to crops to even flowers. It can be either a monoculture or a multi-culture of crops. It can also have animals, but it doesn't have to. And, in today's world, a farm is one that is, if it does contain animals, associated with the intensive feeding/raising operations of livestock, like that of dairy farms, poultry farms, pig farms and feedlots.
What happens to the grass that ranchers plant on burned rain forest lands?
after about four years it dries up
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It is a fox that has been raised on a ranch or farm, in captivity, normally a selectively bred fox which is more docile and larger than wild fox.
Where to find new decals for old Miller welder?
That may be a difficult item to find. Try joining a welders discussion forum. Welders are resourceful and knowledgeable in their craft.
How much do cattle ranchers make?
Depends how many head of cattle you have, how the market is, and how much the animals weigh when your planning on selling them.
Who looks after cattle on a ranch?
Depending on the amount of hired hands on the ranch, it is mostly the hired hands' job to look after the cattle, but the rancher himself is also responsible for most of the responsibilities that comes with the ranch including the cattle and the rangeland the cattle are being raised on. Some ranches are only run by the rancher and his wife, so the responsibilities of looking after the cattle fall on these two person's shoulders.
What instrument do you use to insure a straight fence line?
Hate to tell you bud, I use a string... or, If you can set your corners and run the bottom wire, tight, then mark all your posts, hold the wire out of the way and drill your holes.
