He defines that as one with privacy, fishing, hunting and a cattle-raising operation that doesn't lose money.
In the later 1800s U.S. Army troops cleared out Indians for cattle-raising settlers who later founded the town of Eddy.
Nor was he about to cash in and spend the rest of his life raising cattle.
When ranchers first began raising cattle on the wide-open plains, they used the Osage orange as fencing material.
Beef exports have also been limited, which caused ranchers to stop raising cattle and led to lower leather output and beef consumption.
Until the town opened itself up to greener pursuits, the main industry was raising cattle, and most of the local attractions are still located on working farms.
Other meat producers, including JBS' main rival, Tyson Foods, are also dealing with income woes, mainly because of spikes in corn prices that increased the costs of raising cattle.
If it is top-notch, no one would be surprised to hear that the beef comes from the Argentine Pampas, a grassy flatland that provides optimal conditions for raising cattle.
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Landowners can resist reform by going to the courts, going to their friends, hiring guards, raising cattle instead of crops or reclassifying their property as industrial rather than agricultural.
Tyson Foods ( TSN - news - people ), are also dealing with income woes, mainly because of spikes in corn prices that increased the costs of raising cattle.
But anyone who has earned money through honest work should take a justified pride in that fact, whether it be through programming computers, repairing furnaces, running a small business, or raising cattle.
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In the southwestern corner of Texas, ranchers can earn more money by selling water to city dwellers than by raising cattle, said Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.
They make their living raising championship cattle and running hunting and photographic safaris for visitors.
Over the years the farm was used for raising goats and cattle, dairy farming, and growing corn.
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However, raising grass-fed cattle is time-consuming and requires large open spaces, variables that raise its price.
They also want to slaughter horses disposed of by racetracks, rodeos, horse breeders and owners struggling in the recession a sizeable surplus market that has made the actual raising of horses as meat animals (similar to cattle) completely unnecessary in the U.S. for decades.
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