Maybe , if one needs a catch-all word, just call them “producers.” It can get a little scrambled. At least half of my extended family are ranchers/farmers of several sorts. Some of the large spread ranchers just raise and sell calves. The calves, at 600, or so pounds, get sold to the finishers who feed them the good stuff to get them up to 900-1100 pounds. The finishers usually have to grow some of their own feed to get what they want so that also makes them farmers. Some of the rancher types have better water and feed so they can take a calf all the way to market or auction. Some have stock in packers which closes the loop on getting a nice piece of beef to the table.
And then one of my cuzzins has the inside track at Ore-Ida, the Tater Tot guys, His feeders get Tots, corn, onion scrap and all the rest and you oughta hear those bawlies sound off when they hear that truck coming. But even with that he still has to grow grain and alfalfa so that also maker him a farmer. So he’s the one I’m most polite to keeping close to a great source of “choice” beef.
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