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Work for nearly any ranch and one of the benefits will undoubtedly be free beef. If there’s one thing a ranch can usually spare, it’s home-raised, nutritious protein.
There are few other professions wherein your employer
basically provides you a perpetually full freezer of food. And, if you’re a
self-employed ...
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Ever since the average American left the field to
participate in the Industrial Revolution—and the subsequent fallout of a more
urbanized economy and society—we’ve been trying to get back to the country.
Think about it: where do many average Americans go on vacation? National Parks. They spend 50 weeks cooped up ...
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There’s a universal human drive—especially here in
America—to make our mark. We want to matter, we want to make a difference, and
we want to be remembered. Some build multinational companies, some seek
political office, some create art.
Ranchers brand their cattle.
The National Cowboy and Western Heritage ...
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When we talk about Western heritage, what we mean is
something that is handed down from the past as a tradition.
And while many professions have wonderful traditions and
heritage, the Western or cowboy heritage stands tall among them.
From the perspective of a broader view, agriculture could be
considered among the ...
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As everything we do, think, or say is centered around COVID-19, I’m increasingly thankful for my work as a beef producer.
I look around and see people extremely scared of this unseen
enemy. And I understand and share, to varying degrees, that fear. But the one
thing I can do that so many in the urban centers of this ...
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When the ranges were first being fenced up, and big ranches
divvied into smaller ones, the second-biggest indignity a cowboy could endure
was to be placed on a tractor. The biggest indignity? Being killed on one. And
really, that possibility was no joke the early days of farm machinery.
Today, machine operation is a ...
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Despite the COVID-19 lockdown, the cowboy countdown continues. People are realizing that life must go on in some form or fashion. For cowboys, the social distancing and shelter-in-place orders are probably somewhat moot. By definition, cowboys are isolationists and homebodies—not often crossing the cattleguard.
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Originally, the 24th best reason to be a cowboy was slated as: a short commute. In light of the COVID-19 health scare, I feel it’s only appropriate to spin it a bit to this new (temporary?) reality.
For 15 years, I endured a two-hour-each-way commute. In full disclosure, it was just one day per week, so I had six ...
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There are two songs rolling around in
my head as I think about the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent reactions:
Hank Williams Jr’s A Country Boy Can Survive, and Alabama’s Song of
the South.
In Williams’ song, he croons, “The interest is up and the
stock market's down” and later, despite all the ills of ...
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In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Working Ranch Cowboys Association World Championship Ranch Rodeo in November, the next 25 blog entries will count down the top 25 reasons to be a cowboy. Of course, this is not an exhaustive list, nor will everyone agree on the items chosen and the placement given. Nonetheless, with ...
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