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This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
Deseret Ranch now covers an area 50 by 30 miles (80 by 48 km), with a separate section surrounding Kenansville in Osceola County. The church bought the original 54,000-acre (220 km 2) tract in 1950 and over 50 years, the ranch grew to more than 312,000 acres (1,260 km 2). In 1997 it was the world's largest beef ranch, and the land was worth an ...
By the 1890s, barbed-wire fencing had become standard on the northern plains, railroads had expanded to cover most of the U.S., and meatpacking plants were being built closer to major ranching areas, making long cattle drives from Texas to the railheads in Kansas unnecessary. The age of the open range was over and large cattle-drives were no ...
King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km 2; 1,289 sq mi) [3] it is larger than both the land area of Rhode Island and the area of the European country Luxembourg. [4] It is mainly a cattle ranch, but also produced the racehorse Assault, who won the Triple Crown in 1946.
A ranch (from Spanish: rancho/Mexican Spanish) is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep. It is a subtype of farm .
Cattle feed at T Lake Ranch, a 13,000 -acre ranch near Connell that recently sold for $18 million. The new owners will continue leasing operations and use the ranch as a hunting and fishing retreat.
Ranching in the Western United States involves large herds of cattle grazing widely over public and private lands. [19] Similar cattle stations are found in South America, Australia and other places with large areas of land and low rainfall. Ranching systems have been used for sheep, deer, ostrich, emu, llama and alpaca. [20]
In the fall of 2020, James and Rachael purchased 10 acres of land outside of Douglas, Ariz., and officially launched Southwest Black Ranchers, the first Black-owned livestock ranch in the state ...