rancher
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of rancher
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“The situation with the beef-export data was absurd,” said Mackenzie Johnston, a fifth-generation cattle rancher in Nebraska and a content director at AgMarket.Net-owned commodity brokerage Standard Grain.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 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
“If we start losing our wildlife, that’s a vacuum on my little community, my county,” said John Paul Schuster, a Kinney County judge and rancher with his wife, Donna Schuster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
First of all, the rancher has eyes on their animal, and if they see that the animal has an infestation, they send it to a vet.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Papa thought it was the right thing to do; after all, the rancher had let us live in his cabin free while we worked for him.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
That could put farmers and ranchers at a disadvantage.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
After scouring job postings online and talking with local ranchers, he’s deduced that the land might soon be transformed into one of the many large-scale data centers moving into Montana over the past year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The return of the wolf in California has been met with joy by conservationists, who delight in the improbable population rebound, and with fury by ranchers who bemoan the toll on their cattle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Four years ago, a major drought dried up pastures and water supplies, forcing ranchers to sell their livestock.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
The Beni is of increasing interest to ranchers and soybean growers, who covet its open land and relatively good soil.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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