Top Documentary Films: The Science Behind Cattle Ranches A cattle ranch is a business and should be treated as such. Many who want to start raising cattle probably have had the romantic visions of cowboys riding the range and herding cattle all sunny day and would love to be ones to do that on their own ranch. If only they knew they could do that simply by visiting a dude ranch on their summer vacations! Sitting in the saddle watching or herding cows all day doesn't earn you much money either. A ranch must be operated in a manner that best suits your production practices and will hopefully give you enough income to keep you going for years to come. The following should be considered essential in operating a cattle ranch: Keep and maintain all your records. This ranges from calving to financial records. Software is available for these sort of records, though many ranchers still like to use the old pencil-and-paper method over the computer tablet. Fix and maintain fences and buildings. Fences are more important and more often fixed than buildings. Pasture permanent perimeter fencing should be checked regularly, ideally before and after moving cattle from one pasture to another. Fix and maintain machinery. All machinery involved in a ranching operation must be maintained and in good working order to be able to be used in the fields every year. Grease, oil, inspect, replace and repair any and all parts of machinery, from the tractor to the combine harvester. Manage your grazing operation. A big part of a ranch is the space utilized for cattle to graze. Pastures and grass must be monitored in order for them to keep producing healthy stands season after season, year after year. Know your stocking rates, rest/recovery periods, grazing pressure and soil quality to determine how long your pastures and range can be grazed. Ideally, you should manage your grazing operation on your ranch so that you are improving and maintaining soil quality, water quality, and habitat for other wildlife that reside on your ranch. Manage how you are feeding your cattle. There will be times when you cannot graze your cattle on pasture. This means you need to feed your cattle feedstuffs like hay and/or silage instead. Winter time or times of drought are particular times when feeding cattle is necessary, or any time when grazing cattle is no longer practical. You have a choice of feeding your cattle in a drylot, or adopting more sustainable and lower-cost practices of winter grazing them. Note though that the greatest source of financial loss is during winter and/or drought feeding, and is what makes or breaks the ranching business. Manage your forage/grain enterprises. Not all ranches are the same. Some may just have hay and grazing enterprises, others may have hay, silage, crop, drylot and grazing enterprises. Whatever you choose to have or have already, manage them according to when to seed, fertilize, spray herbicide, cut and harvest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranch http://www.ranchland.com/type/cattle-ranches-for-sale http://www.king-ranch.com/operations/ranching/cattle/ http://arizonaexperience.org/land/cattle-ranching http://www.wikihow.com/Run-a-Cattle-Ranch
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Bull porn
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This is a long video to watch
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Why is it messing up
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So basically we're eating meat from an animal that had a surrogate mother, not even between animals that actually have sex, in which is then fed soy, corn, gummy bears, and chocolate, while also given a slow release iv of steroids in their ear to improve growth speed by 15-20%? sigh
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Holy cow!
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Corporation farmers
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Humans aren't carnivores. Lay off the meat, live longer.
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Animal cruelty... I don't know how can you complain about bullfighting in Spain whose bulls and cows live freely and without clonation and shit... While you have this cruelty in your own country. Simply shocking
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Poor castrated bull. A life of being mounted and hoping that collection guy grabs bull dick before the slamming
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I hate this because i stopped eating pork after learning that they eat garbage, thus, that's what i was eating, garbage. Never tasted lamb so i don't eat it. Don't like the taste of fish and now, I narrowed my diet to only eat beef and chicken. After learning how this animals are treated, i will have to only eat chicken. Now I am afraid to look at a chicken documentary because if its bad, then i will have to be a vegetarian, but i don't like vegetables and starch without meat on the side. So what's left, i guess i will be a fruitarian, a perosn that only eats fruit?
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Excellent Documentry
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of lrag
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I have never seen anyone raise cattle like this. We raise angus for market. The bulls are with the cows in the spring all are out on summer grazing pasture we brand them and medicate them only if they need it. The go to a smaller pasture about 80 acres for 50 head and but on hay and corn feed. That's how everyone around me does it. Same as they have done it for many generations
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So kids, next time you eat a steak or burger you can say "That guy had small balls" because that is why he ended up in the feed lot hahaha
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such a horrible industry #govegan
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i know my neighbors use other people bull semen, but holy damn 200 DOLLARS FOR A STRAW!!!!
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It's alarming the lengths we go with no moral compass or respect for other creatures. But so long as we can explain it pragmatically it sounds good. Sick
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Miss those 2000s commercials...