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rancher

[ran-cher] / ˈræn tʃər /




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“It’s affecting us directly,” rancher Caleb Valdez said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer, herself a cattle rancher, said lowering grocery prices cannot come “at the expense of American producers.”

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Even as the administration has been dogged by record-high prices, American cattle and rancher groups have pushed back against importing foreign beef.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

But US cattle and rancher groups have been resistant to importing more beef.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

The following year, Roosevelt hung up his spurs as a rancher.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Avedon also focused extensively on the American West, which served as the setting for his 1985 portrait series of coal miners, oil field workers, ranchers, drifters and ordinary people that he considered his masterwork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

“We are standing with the powers that ought to be — the teachers and the nurses, the farmers and the ranchers, the grandmother who is facing eviction.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Many farmers and ranchers across the US say they are being hit from all sides.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Washington would need to mobilize ranchers, geneticists, veterinarians, universities and the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

The rest of the land was taken by the National Forest and by the state which later sold it to white ranchers who came from Texas in the early 1900s.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko


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