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The JA Ranch is located southeast of Amarillo, Texas in the Texas Panhandle. The main ranch house, now a museum devoted to Charles Goodnight, is located a short way south of United States Route 287. It is a two-story construction, its oldest portion a log cabin which predates the American Civil War. The main portion of the house, built ...
The Waggoner Ranch is a historic ranch located 13 miles south of Vernon, Texas, in north Texas near the Red River and Oklahoma border. Founded in 1852 by Daniel Waggoner, [2] it is the largest ranch within one fence in the United States. [3] [4] The land has been used to raise crops, beef cattle, and horses and to produce oil.
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association was founded in Graham by forty ranchers from Palo Pinto County, Young County, Parker County, and Shackelford County, including C.C. Slaughter and James C. Loving. [1] [2] [3] Loving was the secretary and later treasurer of the organization until his death in 1902. [2]
According to historian William Curry Holden, "By 1936, 8,000 Hereford cattle grazed 100,000 acres of U Lazy S land." [4] The ranchhouse, a designated Texas landmark, burned down on January 13, 1936. [6] [7] [8] The ranch was inherited by his nephew, John F. Lott and his niece, Mary Belle Lott Macy, in 1940. [4] Lott split some of the acreage ...
The mortality rate among cows is considered fairly low, at about 2%, by the American Veterinary Medical Association. Raudabaugh’s dairy council estimated mortality rates from bird flu are closer ...
A steer. The Texas Longhorn is an American breed of beef cattle, characterized by its long horns, which can span more than 8 ft (2.4 m) from tip to tip. [4] It derives from cattle brought from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas by Spanish conquistadors from the time of the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus until about 1512. [5]
Cows stolen in NC were driven to Texas and Oklahoma and sold for $1 million, prosecutors said. ... The 25-year-old Mount Airy resident traded cattle in his own name, as a business called Diamond L ...
Heifer International also received the 2004 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize for its efforts to eliminate hunger and help communities become self-sustaining. It was the first U.S.-based organization to win the $1-million award since 1997. [34] Heifer International received the 2006 and 2008 Social Capitalist award from Fast Company magazine ...