Florida ranching lasts longer than most residents imagine. Beef production sits at the center of the state’s agricultural heritage for more than 400 years, anchored in a working landscape that often ...

Beef production contributes to numerous global crises, from climate change to habitat destruction to biodiversity loss. Big conservation NGOs have worked fervently to combat these crises, and many ...

OKEECHOBEE — At daybreak on a misty-blue Wednesday, a herd of cows and bulls are horseplaying on a South Florida prairie when a tractor roars to life, hoisting in its jaws a hay bale as golden as the ...

Anna Creek Station is famous because its immense scale requires cattle mustering to be done very differently from typical ranches. In reporting on the station’s scale and role in South Australia’s ...

Tommy Lee Jones’ Texas cattle ranch is a reflection of the actor’s lifelong connection to the Lone Star State. And it shows his preference for privacy over Hollywood flash. The Oscar winner owns a ...

The Elkington family has been ranching near Idaho Falls, Idaho, for over 100 years and several generations. The Polled Hereford part of the operation started in the 1960s with Keith Elkington’s FFA ...

Perched high atop a dappled-colored horse at Alisal Ranch, I stroked the equine’s coarse hair in an effort to bond before sauntering off to an authentic cowboy breakfast. I was with a group of ...