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September 2009

Cattle Stocking Rate

By | Cattle, Ranches

One of the fundamentals of raising cows is the balance between the number of cows in a given area versus the ability of the land to recover. You always want slightly fewer cows than the land can handle so it will have adequate time to reseed and regrow. Stocking rate…

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History of the American Cattle Industry

By | Cattle, Media

From Hot Shot Video Productions: American History books are full of stories about the Wild West; from the Cattle Kingdom in Texas, up dusty trails to cow towns in Kansas and Missouri, and on to railways heading east, cattle crossed our great nation and greatly influenced daily life in America,…

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Cowboy Poetry – Big Ed

By | Media, poetry

Found this on the internet but unfortunately there was no identification of who wrote it. If you know please let me know so I can give credit. Big Ed Now my tale is of the early years, when the century was new And the rankest critters in the Basin were…

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The King Ranch in Texas

By | Cattle, Cowboys, Horses, Ranches

The King Ranch, located in south Texas between Corpus Christi and Brownsville, is one of the world’s largest and most famous ranches. The ranch itself is divided into four separate land areas (Laureles, Santa Gertrudis, Encino, Norias) of approximately 1,300 square miles. King had a life long motto “buy land,…

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