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Frequent Ibama raids had made ranchers "reluctant" to illegally clear land on which to expand their herds, said the rancher.

Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialism a real and vanishing culture.

Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky[9] attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture.

Several of his fellow ranchers have sold to wealthy out-of-state buyers, many from California, who want a piece of Big Sky country.

It was almost a reproduction of the scene of the famous evening when Osterman had proposed the plan of the Ranchers'Railroad Commission.

Back when most of his neighbors were full-time ranchers, they used to keep costs down by sharing equipment and manpower.

FROM her remote farm in southern Kentucky, Lajuana Wilcher checks an online database for local ranchers demanding alfalfa.

I sat down with small business owners in Gutenberg, Iowa; and ranchers and farmers in Peosta.

This was calving season, and fellow ranchers watched for coyotes, cougars , wild dogs and, of course, the lone wolf.

Many of our images of Western cowboys came from these early ranchers and travelers, like this shepherd in Madison County, Montana.

Beef exports have also been limited, which caused ranchers to stop raising cattle and led to lower leather output and beef consumption.

Conservationists had to carry on a constant struggle against lumber companies, ranchers, and homesteader.

Harkin believes that biofuel and conservation programs are ways to help U. S. farmers and ranchers while complying with world trade rules.

Wolves are one of many predators ranchers face, including coyotes, mountain lions, and domestic dogs.

But to cattlemen and ranchers in the United States, it is has always been part of real life.

Mr Dierks is also a state legislator and with other independent ranchers has for years decried consolidation among meatpackers.

If the federal government declares a state of emergency, Texas ranchers will be eligible for low-interest loans and other forms of aid.

The men who listened to him, ranchers, country people, storekeepers, attentive though they were, were not once sympathetic.

As corn prices rise, some ranchers are choosing wheat as a feed crop, boosting demand for the cereal and its price.

In a Giffords television ad, one of the ranchers stares into the camera and says, "Gabrielle Giffords gets it" about border security.

The wolf has been a pain to some stockmen, but has hardly put ranchers out of business.

Some ranchers still do not know where all their cattle had gone or how many are dead.

The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was thirty. The remote desert community was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their families.

Agricultural extension is still a people business---agents spend much of their time face-to-face with ranchers and farmers.

The strong story content of cowboy poetry appeals to a mixed audience -- other cowboys and cowgirls, ranchers, city dwellers and farmers.

The Governor introduced him to the ranchers, proud of Lyman's good looks, his correct dress, his ease of manner.

The dominant cattle ranchers' group, the National Cattlemen 's Beef Association, is creating its own identification system.

Unfortunately the roaming cattle ranchers follow a different logic and will not be turned into agro-businessmen overnight.

When it comes to South Korea, American carmakers and ranchers are demanding that the White House win broader market access for them.

Ed has shown wisdom, foresight, and creativity and that will make him a valued and trusted friend for America's farmers and ranchers.

Mexican ranchers have been using them for centuries and pass their skills on to cowboys north of the border.

The land of the Prairie is so fertile that most ranchers double - crop.

Ranchers who feed their cattle grass for part of the year have had to buy food or sell some or all of their animals.

Among the strongest backers of the plan are ranchers who own property on the border.

Most of her customers are ranchers, cowboys and cowgirls who call the area home.

In Brazil, cattle ranchers used to nearly kill off the jaguar because it would kill their cows.

But ranchers say wolves are a nuisance to livestock and could even threaten humans if their population grows too large.

These "Mountain Men" are businessmen, doctors, judges, and ranchers who do this to raise money for charities and scholarships for students.

The proposal has raised concerns among environmentalists, farmers, ranchers, and landowners in the region, however.

The district court dismissed the suit, and the appeals court affirmed the dismissal, finding that the ranchers lacked standing to sue.

When the land is exhausted, as it quickly is, the ranchers move on.

Rubber companies, ranchers and other developers routinely enslaved or exterminated Indians; their actions were arguably genocidal.

By moving northwards into the Amazon basin, soya farmers are also driving ranchers deeper into the rainforest.

Then come the planters, who replace pasture with more profitable soya, driving the ranchers deeper into the forest.

The bill also requires country-of- origin labeling for meat , a requirement favored by consumer advocates and small ranchers .

Because most Amazonian ranches are illegal, or their ownership is contested, ranchers and banks are reluctant to invest in them.

His clothes were never dirty like those of most of the other ranchers I knew.

Environmentalists estimate as much as 20 percent of the jungle has already been cut down by ranchers, loggers, farmers and developers.

Osterman cut his wheat that summer before any of the other ranchers.

They especially liked talking to the ranchers about government regulations and how they deal with agrologists .

Farmers are struggling to produce crops, and ranchers are worried about watering their cattle.

Are any of the ranchers taking up that offer-or are any of them buying outright.

To many ranchers, the dogs are seen as vermin and a threat to the grass supply for their grazing cattle.

Ranchers realized exploitable value of pastoral areas in the northern Great Plains from F. S. Newman's accidental discovery.

The ranchers argued that the restriction injured them economically.

But the biggest obstacle is the ranchers themselves, whose cattle compete with prairie dogs and bison for grass and space.

The bill would let farmers and ranchers with small holdings to work land closer to river banks and to use hilltops.

At night, local ranchers, armed with shotguns and hunting rifles, patrol the properties most at risk of invasion.

The drought was a calamity for the farmers and ranchers.

Illegal deforestation happens when ranchers and loggers conspire to clear swathes of land.

Wolves were once found almost everywhere in the West, but settlers and ranchers made short work of them.

The Brazilian plan rests in part on using satellites, laws and police to combat illegal loggers and ranchers.

Asked last week about the Bush administration's plans regarding disaster assistance for farmers and ranchers, Johanns counseled patience.

So, ranchers could raise cattle at low cost in the western states and send them by railroad to eastern markets.

It was a bad year for ranchers.

She says most of her customers are ranchers and cowboys and cowgirls who live in the area.

We're making it easier for even more farmers, ranchers and businesses to get emergency loans.

After a century of shooting, trapping and poisoning by ranchers to protect livestock , wolves were placed under protection in 1974.

Trennepohl said Ibama's intelligence sector had also detected a movement of loggers and ranchers from other Amazon states.

Naturally, the ranchers take a different view.

Hollister, a town with Central California independence and charm, was established by ranchers and farmers in 1872.

We're also developing new tools to aid enforcement of farmers' and ranchers' trade rights.

The delisting also allows ranchers to shoot wolves that prey on their stock or threaten pets.

Working dogs help ranchers drive animals where they want them to go.

Cattle ranchers are still dispersed, as young cows must be raised on expensive pastures such as those of Mr Dierks.

Most of the surplus land and many of the plots within reservation boundaries are now in the hands of white ranchers.

The drought has hurt both crop producers and those raising cattle or ranchers.

Instead, he wants APF to pay or subsidize ranchers to raise bison.

Ranchers are staring at dry water holes and desiccated pasture, forcingthem either to sell cattle or buy feed.

Ranchers who sell to APF can also stay on the ranches as long as they like and keep their cattle if they wish.

They have been joined in the Chaco by hundreds of Brazilian ranchers.

A major winter storm in 1886 destroyed hundreds of millions of cattle, many ranchers and herd in dire straits.

The burros were loaded down with the ranchers' food and bedding.

According to a 1997 NIDS report, ranchers in Utah were weighing and tagging calves one morning.

Now American ranchers are working to rebuild Russia's herd.

What kind of horse frightens ranchers?

Peoplelike Lynn Jacobs who fights against ranchers using government land tofeed their cattle.

The first settlers of Alberta were cattle ranchers.

They accused ranchers of employing gunmen to harass and even kill them.

Blacks now make up about 1 percent of the nation's farmers and ranchers, according to the USDA.

The ranchers deny this and accuse the government of encouraging the ranch invasions.

In order to completely eliminate prairie dog, ranchers have put a lot of bait and set-piece composition.

Ranchers employed them to take care of the cattle and work on the ranch.

Ranchers also kill them because the cats sometimes prey upon their livestock.

Jaguars are still hunted for their attractive fur. Ranchers also kill them because the cats sometimes prey upon their livestock.

In Boca do Acre, ranchers such as Onofre believe the measures are helping to slow the destruction.

Ranchers also decide which cows they want to sell.

The ranchers worked for what they have.

Ranchers and other opponents say they're determined to get the government to change its policies, however long it takes.

Idaho ranchers claim that last year that wolves killed about 2, 600 cattle, though experts doubt this.

Ranchers staked out homesteads often centered in a cottonwood grove, with ample water nearby;

The ranchers used water out of open creek holes that was sometimes alkaline and fouled up by stock