Sentence examples for operating a ranch from inspiring English sources

Tells about the difficulties expense, and heartache of operating a ranch under drought-stricken conditions.

Christine Hamilton manages a farm of more than 12,000 acres in Kimball, S.D., growing crops like corn and operating a ranch.

Strait was raised in the small town of Pearsall in southern Texas, where his father worked as a junior-high-school math teacher while also operating a ranch, about 40 miles (64 km) to the southwest, that had been in the Strait family for almost a century.

Sheer acreage is cheap, but operating a ranch is not.

The cost of operating a ranch is high a basic working ranch can cost a minimum of $100,000 a year to operate [link to previous ranch story below], depending upon how many horses, cattle or caretakers are required and profits are difficult to make (see "(Very Expensive) Homes On The Range").

Mr. McSpadden operated a ranch near Chelsea, and he owned a lobbying firm in Oklahoma City.

He then drifted north to Wyoming (still retaining his alias), married one Mary Calvert, and operated a ranch.

Mr. McCan and his family operate a ranch in Victoria, Tex., with more than 3,600 head of Braford cattle, down from 5,000 six years ago.

Although this tradition had already been introduced on television three years earlier with The Real McCoys (ABC/CBS, 1957 63)—a sitcom about a family who left the mountains of West Virginia to operate a ranch in California the success of The Andy Griffith Show firmly established the rural comedy as a dominant genre of the 1960s.

In 1941 Kimpton moved to Nevada to operate a ranch for a year, and then accepted a position at the University of Kansas City as dean of the College of Liberal Arts.

Lunny and his family have long operated a ranch in the park.