To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
Having grown up on a ranch, I find these kind of articles interesting. The two problems that come to mine immediately are:
1. The expense of fencing, as mentioned above.
2. The need to have a source of water in each grazing area. It is harder to find water than to string fence.
Still, it is good to see an article that does not portray ranchers as raping mother earth...
To: goldfinch
The issue of water is of fundamental importance. Thanks for mentioning it, I did not even think about it.
Fences are a matter of capital, water is a resource issue. One can be bought and put in place with minimal consequence, the other not.
Enlightening. Thank you.
17 posted on
09/08/2004 11:54:07 AM PDT by
Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit
(Politically, Saudi Arabia is 18th century France with 16th Century Spain's flow of gold and no art)
To: goldfinch
1. The expense of fencing, as mentioned above.
2. The need to have a source of water in each grazing area. It is harder to find water than to string fence. IOW good ranching is work. It takes a people on horseback and maybe a good cattle dog or two to keep them moving properly.
20 posted on
09/08/2004 12:42:37 PM PDT by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
To: goldfinch
Right! Lets see, that would cost me about $250,000 to fence and another $150,000 to bring water to each section.
And then the gates....... never happen here...
23 posted on
09/08/2004 2:14:28 PM PDT by
OregonRancher
(illigitimus non carborundum)
To: goldfinch
i've known ranchers who used their water source as the cross point for the fences. Of course that is the one point of the land that did see the heaviest use.
I used four connecting manmade ponds.
28 posted on
09/08/2004 3:32:34 PM PDT by
B4Ranch
(Truth goes through three stages, ridiculed, violently opposed, then accepted as self-evident)
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