rancher
Americannoun
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ranchers
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of rancher
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The last documented California grizzly killed was hunted down in August 1922 by a Tulare County rancher named Jesse Agnew, who blamed his dead calves on the grizzly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The U.S. cattle herd will eventually build back up, and there will be more supply of beef and prices will come down, said Johnston, the Nebraska rancher.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Debbie Lyons-Blythe, a cattle rancher from Kansas, said losing the prairie grasses cattle roam on is a problem, but she is also increasingly turning to AI to help better manage her operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Thomas Heitkamp and the team that discovered Gus - named after the late Gary "Gus" Licking, a cattle rancher whose land it was found on - spent three years carefully excavating.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The following year, Roosevelt hung up his spurs as a rancher.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
It added that ranchers need to rebuild the US cattle herd -- or demand would have to cool -- in order for beef prices to fall.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
“The ranchers walked away with a few million dollars and the tule elk get to stay.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The environmentalists said the ranchers brought in invasive plants with their feed, and that cattle fouled the soil and waterways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The term originated from ranchers who owned herds of cattle taking out futures contracts betting that the price of their livestock would rise—instead of taking the opposite position to limit risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Hence, soon after the 1848 war, most local ranchers found themselves up to their elbows in sheep with no place to graze them.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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