If you're not raising livestock on it, then it's not a ranch no matter the size.

 

50 acres is not a ranch. I live on 12 acres with a 40 x 40 barn and it is just a big yard and a hay field.

 

I have a 2 acre ranch

 

Where my dad is from in CT, (he left at 18) A "ranch" is a piece of property at least one (1) acre large. IMO, a ranch has livestock. no livestock. no ranch

 

You measure a farm in acres and a ranch in sections...that's the old rule of thumb.

But if someone owns 100, 200 or 300 acres and has cattle on it...if they want to call it their "ranch" more power to them.

TH

 

X 2 ... I have 225 acres with cows and I still call mine a farm . To me a ranch takes a day to ride the fence on a horse .

 

If you own it and want to call it a Ranch, go for it, there's a guy on here that made a beautiful sign for his FIL, maybe once you name YOUR ranch you can contact him and get one made!

 

View of the Grant-Kohrs Ranch near Deer Lodge, Montana.

A ranch is an area of landscape, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool. The word most often applies to livestock-raising operations in the western United States and Canada, though there are ranches in other areas. People who own or operate a ranch are called ranchers, or stockgrowers. Ranching is also a method used to raise less common livestock such as elk, American bison or even ostrich, emu, and alpacas.
Ranches generally consist of large areas, but may be of nearly any size. In the western United States, many ranches are a combination of privately owned land supplemented by grazing leases on land under the control of the federal Bureau of Land Management. If the ranch includes arable or irrigated land, the ranch may also engage in a limited amount of farming, raising crops for feeding the animals, such as hay and feed grains.

 

I feed and raise wild hogs on my place so I guess it's a ranch.

 

You and a lot of others but you may be more accurately be described as a pig farmer.

 

You seem to want to make a lot of "classifications". Your dad had 800 acres, some dads had 5 acres or no property. Call it what ever you want.

 

I wasn't calling it anything. We called my Father's place a farm although cattle were run on it. It was mostly for quail hunting which in south Georgia are many times called a plantation.

If it is alright with you I simply wanted people's opinions on what they constitute as a ranch.

If I were into classifications I would get banned for typing your classification.

 

Que pusso is a douchbag.....

 

Hey, I'm a Nascar loving ******* I guess, so shut the heck up. Although Q is a db!

 

hi vic! good to see ya back here. i really loved those when i saw them at the TOBA event. i still want dibs on two of them ok. ill get with you when i get back to alvin and work out the pick up.

i miss my box! left it in alvin.....
trudy

You certainly seem to have a crush on me. Is that from time spent with Bubba in the lock up? Sorry, but uneducated east Texas ******** are not my type. I prefer educated women.

 

Where did that come from? Trudy hasn't even been on here since March.

 

Cows and land!

 

I remember a whore house west of Sealy that Marvin Zindler had closed down and they called it "the Ranch". Sat on about 1 1/2 acres.

 

LOL. Was is the "Mustang Ranch"? They must have had a lot of horsies there!

 

If you make your living ranching or farming then I would consider it a ranch. IMO. Anything else is a hobby.

 

Got a 15 acre place down the street from me with a ranch sign on the gate I make fun of daily.....

 

Why would you make fun of something that someone worked hard for? 15 acres is not a huge spread but it is probably some working Joe's little slice of paradise. Unfortunately not everyone can afford a 20k acre working ranch like yourself.

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Don't feed the lonely pompous troll with the self worth issues.

 

Which one of us are you talking about?

 

ranch

I've got 150 acres in the hill country that we all call "the ranch." If that bothers you que paso, then you're not invited.

 

I've got 150 acres in the hill country that we all call "the ranch." If that bothers you que paso, then you're not invited.

Good one!

 

We're on 200+ with cattle, and I and the rest of my family don't often call it "the ranch" except as part of the business name... I'd be hard pressed to come up with a better name, though.

 

It's not a ranch unless you high fence it. :texasflag

 

No, that's not a ranch, that's a zoo...

 

Meanwhile.....back at the "ranch"....not sure how many acres ?

 

 

....or post Marvin Swindler............

 

 

 

This is actually a great idea... off only 1 acre of land, there are 6.3 million square inches! Hmmmmm... maybe it's time to put an acre up!

As for the definition... ranch has livestock. Farm has crops. Size doesn't matter, but it does need to be located outside any city limits.

 

I wonder if quepoos has a son named jesse?