Ranching

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!

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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.

The origins of the cowboy tradition come from Spain, beginning with the hacienda system of medieval Spain. This style of cattle ranching spread throughout much of the Iberian peninsula and later, was imported to the Americas

By selling their cows to the slaughterhouses for more money than it had cost to care fore them.

Back in the day, cattle were kept in open range, so different herds could be mixed up. After calves were born in the spring, the owners and their cowboys would round up the cattle and sort out which calves belonged to which mother and brand them accordingly. If the cattlemen were going to take the cattle to be sold, then they could work together to get them to market since ownership was clear.

Texas Ranchers sent their longhorns on cattle drives because the demand of the cattle in Texas was low. But high in the north and east. Demand and supply affect the price of nearly everything that was bought and sold - not just the cattle.

Les Feldick's ranch in Kinta, OK is approximately 1,500 acres in size. It is a significant piece of land that provides ample space for various agricultural activities and livestock. The ranch's size allows for efficient management and utilization of resources for optimal productivity.

Barbed Wire.

They would try to mimic predators stalking cattle in such a way to make the animals move in the direction they wanted to go, especially upon studying the prey-predator interactions between buffalo and wild dogs or wolves. A lot of the herding aspect was trial-and-error, until both the herders and the cattle learned that certain methods could work without panicking the cattle and that the herders were not there to harm the cattle, respectively.

In colloquial terms, yes, both male and female bovines are used to make beef or "cow meat."

Bananza Ranches, a fictional setting from the video game "Fallout: New Vegas," is portrayed as a lavish and somewhat dystopian resort in the post-apocalyptic Mojave Wasteland. In the game, it serves as a front for the nefarious activities of the game's antagonists, particularly the character known as the "Strip." The ranches are notable for their exploitation of workers and a façade of prosperity that contrasts sharply with the underlying corruption and decay typical of the game's world. Overall, Bananza Ranches symbolize the themes of greed and moral ambiguity prevalent in the "Fallout" series.

The address of the Coming King Foundation is: Po Box 290555, Kerrville, TX 78029-0555

Holiday Ranch was created in 1953.

Deseret Ranches was created in 1950.

Niman Ranch was created in 1969.

Temporarily, yes, but the disadvantages of hot-iron branding cattle--being it being painful to the animals, regardless if their skin is more thicker than ours--is outweighed by the advantages of identification that is necessary, even today, to discern which herd belongs to which rancher. This is especially necessary in areas where multiple herds from multiple owners exist, making identification easier when cattle need to be rounded up and shipped back tot the home ranch after the grazing season.

Norias Ranch Raid happened on 1915-08-08.

Operation Ranch Hand happened in 1964.