How much is what?

[WTA]

I've only got 25 acres here and the IRS sure calls us a working ranch. We have horses, goats, cows and chickens and grow and sell about 30-35 tons of hay a month during the warm months. That's about 1000 square bales of bermuda and alfalfa. I just planted a pasture with Tiffany also so it will be even more in about a month or so.

I think this fits the definition of a ranch.

 

[Lasgambler]

Since all of the developement of the big ranches in my area, Most people have between 36 and 40 acres and call them ranches weather they run cows or have horses. However, I have a freind in Las Vegas that has 2 acres, and has no problem calling it his Poodle Ranch.

 

[MossRoad]

I have a 1 acre ranch. I harvest about 50 head of Scalopus aquaticus from it each year. It all depends on your farming practices as to how many you can support on a given body of land. Fortunately, we are blessed with very fertile soil, plenty of sunshine and good water. Out west, many folks cannot support 1 head on 1 acre.

 

[EastTexFrank]

Yea, I suppose it's all relative. I have 13 acres and call it "the house". My M-I-L lives on 150 acres, raises cows and calls it "the farm". Go figure.

 

[tallyho8]

I have a 1 acre ranch. I harvest about 50 head of Scalopus aquaticus from it each year. It all depends on your farming practices as to how many you can support on a given body of land. Fortunately, we are blessed with very fertile soil, plenty of sunshine and good water. Out west, many folks cannot support 1 head on 1 acre.

What do you do with a mole after you harvest it?

 

[N80]

What do you do with a mole after you harvest it?

Mole (sauce) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[R_Walter]

I've only got 25 acres here and the IRS sure calls us a working ranch. We have horses, goats, cows and chickens and grow and sell about 30-35 tons of hay a month during the warm months. That's about 1000 square bales of bermuda and alfalfa. I just planted a pasture with Tiffany also so it will be even more in about a month or so.

I think this fits the definition of a ranch.

Sounds like you got a little farm with a hay field. Where's 'here'?

 

[R_Walter]

Seems like the word 'ranch' is more fitting to certain regions of the country than others. Originally it had a Spanish derivation as I recall. Therefore, it would have originated in Old Mexico or in the southwest US or California likely. I would argue that anything east of the Missisippi couldn't begin to qualify as a ranch. I also think it's got to be tens of thousands of acres to be serious.

 

[WTA]

Here is near Lubbock, Texas. Hot and dry Lubbock. I tried to tell my wife it's a farm but she calls it a ranch. If I had known that was a spanish term I would have really put my foot down about it.

Someone once told me the definition of a farm is when your tractor payment is bigger than your car payment.

On a large farm it's bigger than your house payment.

On a corporate farm then you are rich anyway and everyone else owes you money.

 

[RedRocker]

Got no critters, got no crops, do have 17 acres and call it a ranch cause
calling it the little place out in the country is kinda cumbersome. I know it's
not a ranch or a farm in real life, but it's mine and I can call it anything I want.