Farm or Ranch??

[BandRRanch]

grsthegreat:
Maybe you should raise a lot of cats and see what the wife thinks of your idea for names of the ranch then.

 

[Western]

grsthegreat:
Maybe you should raise a lot of cats and see what the wife thinks of your idea for names of the ranch then.

I think that "ranch" name is already taken by a place outside Las Vegas??.. OOOOps my bad , it is the "Bunny Ranch":laughing:

 

[orezok]

When I was young and foolish and lived in Texas (..and you can interpret that any way you want) the rural roads in east Texas were FM and a number i.e. FM123. The roads in west Texas were RM and a number. That stood for Farm to Market and Ranch to Market.

I don't know if they are still that way, but I guess it does depend upon where you are.

Here's Wikipedia's take on it. Farm-to-market road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Heavy Metal Doctor]

I don't know if they are still that way, but I guess it does depend upon where you are.

Kinda off topic, but we visited Bandera in the Hill Country west of San Antonio (is that considered West Texas??) a few years back and my memory is that everything was "FM" roads......one of the best places I ever had the peasure of driving around....

 

[JakeBrake]

I once had the opportunity to hunt Javelina on the King Ranch in south Texas. After getting the pre-hunt instructions from our outfitter he assigned us to different "pastures" to hunt. 6 of us were assigned to hunt "_______ pasture" (I've forgotten the name). I got to wondering just how much the six of us had to hunt and if we'd be "bumping" into one another while out on our pursuit of these little stinking pigs. At the end of the his long list of "do's and don't's" I had to ask the question......"how big a pasture is the "________ pasture" ? His response........"twenty-four thousand acres!" I think they named that place correctly! The King Ranch! Of course the "King" came from the fellow's name who created it.

Our place is only 40 acres and we have a variety of horses, dogs and cats and are currently "cowless" and we affectionately call it the "Last Dollar Ranch"!

I do know of a fairly popular horse trainer who named his place "Almosta Ranch"!:thumbsup:

We stopped at a Texas highway rest area last week. The display there said the King Ranch has 600 oil wells.

 

[Western]

We stopped at a Texas highway rest area last week. The display there said the King Ranch has 600 oil wells.

And those are probably at the front gate!!!


Never seen a "RM" road. FM's as long as I can remember, even in the old movies sometimes you can see an FM road in the background.

 

[houstonscott]

If you raise beef cattle you have a ranch. If you raise anything else including dairy cows you have a farm.

HS

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Howdy neighbor, Us northern MD mason dixon guys must think alike.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/172517-farm-ranch.html

here are the results from when I asked. :laughing:

 

[Heavy Metal Doctor]

Howdy neighbor, Us northern MD mason dixon guys must think alike.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/172517-farm-ranch.html

here are the results from when I asked. :laughing:

Howdy!

Now that's funny! :laughing: Glad to see I'm not the only one in this area who thinks like I do about our local "ranchers":laughing:

 

[tcreeley]

In New England- no matter what you raise- it is a farm - unless it's horses then if it is for training or public use- it is a stable.
Raise beefers, herefords, angus etc- you got a beef farm. Pigs- pig farm, Dairy/cows - dairy farm, goats/sheep - sheep farm/goat farm. Once in a while someone calls their horse farm a "ranch" (lazy circle ranch on a few acres) and that always brings a laugh. But the best one I saw was in the western southern edge of Ohio - "Oleo Acres - The Cheapest Spread Around"!