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Ranches

Spatial Information Technologies

By | Ranches

Large ranches and even groups of smaller ranches are starting to learn about Spatial Information Technologies. For example, there is a seminar about this field led by Eric Redeker at the King Ranch Institute in Texas on May 18. Although most cowboys probably don’t twitter and have Facebooks pages, technology…

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Grass

By | Cattle, Ranches

Without grass we probably wouldn’t be eating steaks and hamburgers today. There are a lot of jokes in the cattle business about the fact that being a cattle producer is really about moving the protein found in grass directly to the consumer, with the transportation vehicle being a cow. Many…

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Hunewill Ranch

By | Ranches

One of my favorite places is a 4,600 acre ranch owned by the Hunewill Land and Cattle Company in Bridgeport, California. For over 136 years the Hunewill family has raised and sold cows and since the 1930s they have offered a very unique opportunity for visitors to get to see…

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