English and Dutch settlers, as well as native Montauk Indians, established the area as a cattle ranch in the mids. Deep Hollow remains a working cattle ranch, offering trail rides and living history events. Ranchera Ranchera is a type of Mexican popular song. Rancheras that developed in the rural, ranching state of Jalisco are often played by mariachi musicians. Many of them settled in the pastures of Argentina and quickly adapted to the gaucho , or cowboy, culture. These Jewish ranchers established the town of Moises Ville and developed their own dialect, a combination of Spanish and Yiddish.
Ranch Dressing Ranch dressing, a rich combination of buttermilk, yogurt, sour cream, mayonnaise, green onions, and garlic, was invented at a dude ranch in California in the s. The ranchs name? Hidden Valley.
Antibiotics do not stop viruses. Carbon dioxide is also the byproduct of burning fossil fuels. Also called the alimentary canal. Also called a game reserve. Also called alien, exotic, or non-native species. Also known as laughing gas or happy gas. Pesticides can be fungicides which kill harmful fungi , insecticides which kill harmful insects , herbicides which kill harmful plants , or rodenticides which kill harmful rodents.
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Select from these resources to teach your students about agricultural communities. Encyclopedic entry. The Maasai people of East Africa built a pastoral way of life around their cattle, but the modern market economy has threatened to override the economy of bovine exchange. Mining, logging, ranching, agriculture, and oil and gas extraction have put unsustainable pressure on the delicate rain forests of the Amazon Basin. Join our community of educators and receive the latest information on National Geographic's resources for you and your students.
Skip to content. Twitter Facebook Pinterest Google Classroom. Encyclopedic Entry Vocabulary. Ranches like this one in the Pampas are called estancias. Photograph by George F. Australian Shepherd. Also called American buffalo. Clint Eastwood. Dust Bowl. Also called American elk and wapiti. Gene Autry. German sheperd. Great Plains. Great Pyrenees. John Wayne. Marion Morrison, American actor. Middle Ages. Also called a round-up. Also called indigenous species.
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Text Text on this page is printable and can be used according to our Terms of Service. Interactives Any interactives on this page can only be played while you are visiting our website. Related Resources. Agricultural Communities. View Collection. View Article. The Cattle Economy of the Maasai. View leveled Article. Amazonia: The Human Impact. View Map. It's Saturday morning at AM. While most people all over America are still deep in sleep's warm embrace, James "Jimmy" Johnson is shoveling down a hearty breakfast before he gets to shoveling other things around.
He gets dressed in his usual jeans and flannel shirt to spend the day working under the hot sun. He's a rancher, and the term "weekend" doesn't mean much to him. Papa negotiates the winding gravel roads and the narrow highway, taking the two of them from the family's ranch to the pastureland the family uses for the herd during the winter. When they pull up to the pens, Jimmy and Big John he's got a lot of nicknames hop out and greet a bunch of other ranchers and cousins who'll be helping out today.
After feeding and a little inventory—paperwork is an important part of running a business—at AM the mission is simple: move the cattle from Solo field to Skywalker field Big John is a big fan of Star Wars. They rotate their cattle to different fields in order to fertilize the fields, and give the cattle fresh grass to munch on.
Jimmy and two of his cousins get to herding while Papa John barks out orders. They're good at their jobs, but John's a perfectionist. It's hard work, but this is the best part of his day. Jimmy's on a horse, and he loves riding horses. There's always a few defectors that try to break out of line and start a rebellion, but Jimmy is quick to get them back on track.
Agri Beef purchases a large majority of our cattle for our supply chain at this point in the beef lifecycle. Agri Beef searches out producers who embrace our goal of raising the highest quality cattle, with a strong commitment to animal well-being, land stewardship, and their communities.
We purchase from over 1, family ranching operations, many on the trust of a handshake. These families are the backbone of hundreds of western rural communities that, without cattle ranching, would cease to exist. We take great pride in preserving the iconic heritage and traditions of ranching.
Learn more about the next step in the ranch-to-table process, cattle feeding. Kent and Lana Clark manage the ranch and the over 1, cows in three herds that graze here. The large majority of the cattle, approximately , make up the commercial cow-calf herd.
The cows are primarily Angus based and predominantly bred to Charolais bulls.
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