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- This article is about a type of land use. For other meanings see Ranch (disambiguation).
A Ranch is an area of landscape, including buildings and structures, given primarily to the grazing of livestock on rangeland. Ranches may be of nearly any size and if the ranch includes arable or irrigated land, the ranch may also engage in raising crops, especially hay and feed grains. Some ranches also cater to tourists (see dude ranch).
The historic 101 Ranch in Oklahoma showing the ranchhouse, corrals, and out-buildings.
[edit] Ranch examples
Among the best-known ranches in the world are:
- King Ranch in Texas, USA raises horses and cattle on over 3,000 km²
- Dadanawa Ranch in Guyana raises horses on 4,500 km².
- XIT Ranch
- Philmont Scout Ranch
[edit] Ranches outside USA
In Argentina ranches are known as estancias and are extensive.
In Australia ranches are known as 'stations' usually in the context of what stock they carry - usually as Cattle station or Sheep station. They exist mainly on Rangelands and were in most cases administered as pastoral leases by state governments. The largest of these is Anna Creek station at 24,000 km²
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