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2. List of ranches and stations - Wikipedia

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   3 North America. Toggle North America subsection. 3.1 Canada. ... This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are ...

3. King Ranch - Wikipedia

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   By 1870, 300,000 head of cattle made their way from the West to the railroads of Kansas, and thence to the stockyards of Chicago. On a Texas ranch, a steer worth $11 would bring $20 from a buyer in Abilene. The buyer in turn could ask $31.50 at the Union Stock Yards. King could drive his cattle for a hundred days to the railheads of Kansas.

4. Ranch - Wikipedia

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   The province of Sonora had 121,000 head of cattle in 1783, [70] the province of California had 68,000 head of cattle and 2187 horses in 1802, up from 25000 cattle in 1792. [ 71 ] Atequiza Hacienda in Jalisco, a major hacienda de labor that combined farming and cattle raising.

5. Agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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   As of the 2017 census of agriculture, there were 2.04 million farms, covering an area of 900 million acres (1,400,000 sq mi), an average of 441 acres (178 hectares) per farm. [ 2 ] Agriculture in the United States is highly mechanized, with an average of only one farmer or farm laborer required per square kilometer of farmland for agricultural ...

6. History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Bosso, Christopher J. Framing the Farm Bill: Interests, Ideology, and Agricultural Act of 2014 (University Press of Kansas, 2017). Brunner, Edmund de Schweinitz. Rural social trends (1933) online edition; Conkin, Paul K. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 (2009) excerpt and text search ...

7. Number of US farms falls and size increases, census shows - AOL

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   The Census of Agriculture, taken every five years, counts and details U.S. farms and is used to shape the nation's farm policies. There were 1.9 million U.S. farms in 2022, down about 7% from 2.04 ...

8. Parker Ranch - Wikipedia

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   Spread across approximately 130,000 acres (53,000 ha) of the island, Parker Ranch is among the nation's largest cattle ranches. [6] A cowboy on the ranch is called a paniolo (Hawaiian language pronunciation of Spanish: Español), since the first cowboys were Spanish-speaking and came from Mexico. [7] The Hawaiian language does not have the "s ...

9. Florida adds restrictions to dairy cows to prevent bird flu - AOL

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   Florida currently has approximately 48 dairy farms, said Ray Hodge, executive director of United Dairy Farmers of Florida. Most cattle in Florida is raised for beef.