Quotes About Ranching

He cocked his head to one side. Callie, this is a ranch. If I remember right, you joined the Army because you hated every damn thing there was about ranchin'. Are you sure you want to live here? Guess I've found out there's worse things in the world than the cows, hay haulin', and calvin' season, she said. I'm not askin' for a handout here, Finn. I'm willing to work. I'll work outside. I'll work inside cleaning and cooking or both if you'll give me and Martin room and board.

Anything to do with the land, I love.

A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.

The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there.

The things you have to do to handle them. The tagging and roping and throwing them down and castrating them. And then knowing you're sending them off to be slaughtered. I just suddenly didn't have the heart for it anymore.

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

Ford's opinion that cows were the crudest, most inefficient machines in the world is not unjustified considering the amount of land and energy it takes to keep one alive. Between 2000 and 2005, cattle ranching accounted for 60 percent of deforestation, and today Brazil is the world's largest exporter of cows, with its 180,000,000-head herd equaling the size of its population.

Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design.

Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

Cowboying is all I've done my whole life.

God can be heard in the jingle of a spur, the thunder of hooves, and the bawl of a newborn calf.

My father was what you would call a cowboy, a vaquero; he worked out in the ranches with cattle. And my mother came from farmers down in the valley.

You know the story of the Harvard graduate comes to Texas a while back and says to his rancher uncle, 'Uncle Will, how come you can get heavier punishment here for stealing a cow than for killing a man?' Uncle Will says, 'Look out the window. See those cows out to pasture? See any of them look like they need stealing?' " Warren

I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

Mister Hawe, you come along, not satisfied with ropin

Feet The Hide and Tallow Men

MIGHT AS WELL RAISE MOOSHROOMS

going, they needed to see a profit. And just running cattle

At Equator Ranch a decade before, his debut lambing had turned out only six surviving animals of four thousand ewes. Undaunted, he had burned through more of his inheritance (eighty thousand pounds, some claimed), replaced his stock, learned his hard lessons, and was now the most successful large-scale rancher in all of Kenya. Not