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Calves still need to be bought and sold, and ranch operations - many multi-generational - don not pause for politics.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

George W. Bush spent as much time as possible at the West Texas ranch he bought just before assuming the presidency.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

Hidden Valley is selling a “spooky” black version of its ranch dressing for Halloween.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

They had just bought 640 acres for an ostrich ranch, which ultimately didn’t work out, though they kept some of the birds as pets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

It seemed the first sign of life we had heard around the ranch all day, and it lifted our spirits.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

Ken Boulay, the CEO of the Turtle Island Restoration Network, said it’s time to move forward and imagine what the park could be like without cattle and private ranches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Since 1997, the United States has lost more than 450,000 cattle ranches.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

“God bless her. She let me go out and live on ranches and run with other people to get away from him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

With bankruptcies doubling in the past year, median farm income is trending downward, and roughly 90% of family-owned farms and ranches rely on alternative sources of income to survive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

Mostly, I just liked seeing all the folks from the big ranches and the little farms like ours that was out on the boardwalk.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

And now that anything can be ranched, everything is getting ranched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

In the 1880s, Theodore Roosevelt hunted and ranched as a young man in the Badlands of what is now western North Dakota.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

These ancient wetlands had been plundered for timber, then ranched, and finally acquired by the state in the 1970s to nurture back to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

When Letseoma was growing up in this house, her father had farmed and ranched and had owned horses, cattle, sheep, and chickens.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2021

As Grandpa got older he ranched less and farmed more, until one day he stopped farming.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

“Yak ranching is growing, but it’s still a niche market,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

The show depicts the power struggles between patriarch John Dutton III, his children, the locals, and the outsiders seeking to change their bucolic ranching way of life.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The U.S. urgently needs a cattle policy worthy of its ranching tradition.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Cheyenne, a city of 66,000 nicknamed “The Magic City of the Plains,” was built on rail, ranching, oil and gas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

“In the fifties, when my father was ranching, it was two or three years old. Now we get there at fourteen to sixteen months.”

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan