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Ask Martin Black : Width of a Spade Mouthpiece

By | Tack

Question: “I have a question in regards to spade bits and smaller horses. I’ve made four bridle horses. The one that will be number five is an 800-pound half-Arab mare that is 14 hands on the mark. She’s going great and will probably be ready for a bit next spring….

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Women Expand Their Home On The Range

By | Cowgirls, Ranches

By Elizabeth Zach From the Washington Post RUIDOSO, N.M. — Although Laura Jean Schneider comes from four generations of Midwest farmers, she is uncertain sometimes about her agricultural acumen.For the past two years, she has ranched cattle across 100,000 acres on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico with her…

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Saudi Arabia buying up farmland in US Southwest

By | Ranches

By Jeff Daniels from CNBC   Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries are scooping up farmland in drought-afflicted regions of the U.S. Southwest, and that has some people in California and Arizona seeing red. Saudi Arabia grows alfalfa hay in both states for shipment back to its domestic dairy herds….

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