Ranching

It is known as "hacienda"

Its like a strip club, you can go in and spend $300 and have a great time watching the show and drinking a beer, while the guy next to you is spending $3000 and has bottle service and hours of private lap dances. The more you spend the more options you have - do you want an outdate, an overnight, multi-girl parties, jacuzzi party? The lady you choose will be happy to go over the options available and show you the various amenities. They are prohibited from discussing pricing on the internet or over the phone. Meet her in person at the ranch and she will be more than happy to work with your budget.

During the 1800's, 3 problems facing ranchers were: 1) drought 2)cattle thieves,known then as rustlers; and 3) difficulty of delivery to markets.

Open Range refers back to the time when ranchers did not fence their property. The cattle roamed free with only brands to identify them to a rancher.

Raising large numbers of cattle

Don Johnson has a 20 acre ranch, in California... In Texas we call that our back yard. Seriously it would be a matter of opinion. I would consider a small ranch a hundred acres or so.

King ranch in south Texas, largest in Texas and the USA, but not in the world - as is often claimed

In fact the largest ranch - or cattle station as it is locally called is in Australia.

Anna Creek Station, well known as the biggest Australian cattle station: this station in the Outback of South Australia covers 6,000,000 acres, or 34,000 km2. (Belgium by comparison is just over 30,000 km2, and the biggest American ranch is about 6,000 km2.)

Makes the King ranch look a little small really.

In the amazon rainforest, the cause of almost 80% of deforestation.

King Ranch is 825,000 acres.

king ranch in Texas is, or was 1.2 million acres, 1300 square miles.

Lillian King owns the King ranch in Texas.

Ranchers are people who raise livestock like horses and cattle for a living. They are essentially "grass farmers" because they use these livestock to harvest the fodder, forages, grasslands (tame or native) in such a way that helps "produce" the livestock they wish to sell for income purposes. Ranchers may also be called "farmers" if they also maintain a grain operation along with the livestock they raise.

The YFZ Ranch also known as Yearning for Zion Ranch is a community which housed as many as 700 people just outside of Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas. The ranch is most famous for housing several abused juveniles and being raided in 2008 by the Texas Child Protective Services.

Thousands of dollars but not extremely expensive

He became the biggest lamb dyer in texas. :P

They can still be called a farm or ranch, depending where you are from. The term operation is more of a term directed to the business aspect of agriculture. There really are no definite terms for either agricultural operations.

They herded them using horses and the best herding practices they could use to move cattle with and keep them together.

160post at 20 ft. apart

I believe almost every state in the US, except for maybe Alaska, has a ranch of some form or other. However the most obvious states that would have ranches would be the following:

Texas

Oklahoma

Montana

Florida

Alabama

Utah

Colorado

California

Nevada

Nebraska

Kansas

Arkansas

Oregon

Washington

South Dakota

North Dakota

Idaho

Georgia

Louisiana

Missouri

Wisconsin

New Mexico

Arizona

Tennessee

West Virginia

Kentucky

There is only one King Ranch and that is located in Texas, USA.

As far as all time winning percentages go, through 15 games of the 2009 season that would be the Houston Texans who have an all time regular season record of 48-79 for a winning percentage of .378.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have the second lowest all time regular season winning percentage at .393 (208-322-1) and the Atlanta Falcons are third lowest at .414 (275-390-6).

A Gentleman's Ranch is a small acreage in a rural setting typically characterized by 5-20 acres of property. It is not uncommon for a "Gentleman's Ranch" to have a couple horses, a few cattle, sheep or perhaps a couple goats. The true gentleman's ranch always has a gated "ranch style" entrance.

You might expect to find the world's largest cattle ranch in Texas. But you would do better to look halfway around the world in Australia.

A cattle ranch at Alexandria Station, in Australia's Northern Territory, once covered some 7.2 million acres, or about 11,250 square miles, an area about the size of New Hampshire and Delaware combined! The ranch now has an area of square miles. About 60,000 cattle graze there.

This is the largest cattle ranch on earth today. But early this century, there was another ranch in Australia's Northern Territory that was more than five times as large.

Until this ranch was divided into smaller properties, it covered an area of 35,000 square miles, about the size of Indiana!

for additional information, see web link answer that i posted.

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Farmers need to enclose the land (to protect their planted crops) - they used barbed wire for this. Ranchers needed unimpeded open plains to drive their cattle across (the cattle got entangled in the wire).

Barbed wire was a way to stop other ranchers' livestock from getting mixed up with another rancher's livestock. It also was a way to stop squatters from making a homestead on land that wasn't theirs. There were a few free-range cattle drovers back then that didn't own land but grazed their cattle wherever necessary. Barbed wire prevented that as well, and created a kind of necessary ownership of the land.