ranch or farm?

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What makes a place called a "farm" a farm? What makes a place called a "ranch" a ranch?? just pondering. In His grace, Sissy

-- Sissy Barth (iblong2Him@ilovejesus.net), February 16, 2002

Answers

I have been told that when your raise mostly crops...its a farm, when you raise mostly one type of animal its a ranch. I prefer farm. Just my 2 cents.

-- Jenny (auntjenny6@aol.com), February 16, 2002.

Well, see, it's like this...... We have 111 acres. I have cattle on part, and he has 300 sapling pecan trees on part.

So do we have a ranch, farm, rancharm, farnch?

-- Rancher Rose with Farmer Hubby (open_rose@hotmail.com), February 16, 2002.


When we lived in Texas, we were sternly told by a RANCHer that a farm is cluttered with all sorts of miscellaneous objects, most of which are not being used. A ranch, on the other hand, is neat and tidy.

-- Cathy N. (homekeeper86@sympatico.ca), February 16, 2002.

Was a huge discussion about this over at CS a long while ago, the concensus was that the farm or ranch designation exists strictly in the said owner's mind.

-- Annie Miller in SE OH (annie@1st.net), February 16, 2002.

I always thought texans had ranches and all the rest of us had farms. :>)

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), February 16, 2002.


Well, here's something to consider on the subject. Around here a farmhouse style house is always a two story while a ranch style home is a single story. FWIW

-- Gary in Indiana (gk6854@aol.com), February 16, 2002.

A farmer farms the land, cultivates it, applies fertilizer etc. Ranching is more akin to mining.

-- john hill (john@cnd.co.nz), February 17, 2002.

diane, speaking as a texan . . . a ranch is somethun' you turn a bolt with. As in "durn, mah son took my ranch from mah tuhlbox!"

-- j.r. guerra in s. tx. (jrguerra@boultinghousesimpson.com), February 18, 2002.

lol jr :>)

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), February 18, 2002.

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