If you paid for it, you call it what you want. Everyone else can eat a dick.

Source: my family has a little over two sections on which we enjoy time.

Good grief son. Leave it to the millennials to debate what to call theirs or someone else's place. If you think it's a "ranch", then damnit son - call it and ranch and get your square toed boots on and do whatever else you wanted to do today. Stop ***** footing around, worrying about what others think to call something you own or make notes on.

You new here? Have you not heard the running joke on what constitutes a ranch? haha I said it in jest. It is a joke.

aggie1819 said:

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Mostly in jest but curious what the OB considers sizes for different land size minimums? What are the OB definitions? I always see it joked about on here.

Ranch Acreage?
50+?

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hahahahahaha I believe it was your post that made me create this thread.

FrioAg 00 said:

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Now sure about size, but to me the difference in Ranch and Farm is simple. If it's a crap load of work, it's a Ranch. If it's in a state of completion and there for you enjoyment, it's a Farm.

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You must have never farmed.

Ranches have livestock and farms have crops.

If you have livestock or grow crops only for an ag exemption then you don't have a farm or ranch.

If you have a wildlife exemption then you don't have a farm or ranch.

Edit to add if you have more horses than cattle you don't have a ranch.

CanyonLakeAg said:

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Ranches have livestock and farms have crops.

If you have livestock or grow crops only for an ag exemption then you don't have a farm or ranch.

If you have a wildlife exemption then you don't have a farm or ranch.

Edit to add if you have more horses than cattle you don't have a ranch.

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Pig ranch? Nope. It's a pig farm.

coastalaggie said:

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FrioAg 00 said:

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Now sure about size, but to me the difference in Ranch and Farm is simple. If it's a crap load of work, it's a Ranch. If it's in a state of completion and there for you enjoyment, it's a Farm.

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You must have never farmed.

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Yeah, I did both growing up and always thought farming was more work than cattle on the scale we were doing things. However, there's probably far more marital strife created in the world by trying to catch that one last cow. If you know, you know.

These days I have an 87 acre place that I run Dorpers on. Damn easy animals to raise. Maintain fence, drench them a couple of times a year, and feed them just often enough to make sure they come to the feed bag.

CS78 said:

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Garden= Something behind the house that you and your friends eat from
Farm= A place with some sort of large scale crop for sale
Ranch= A place that produces livestock in a significant number
Place= Everything else

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This is how my family has always said it

This thread is dumb...

I have 1,309 ac "Ranch" in Webb County
I have a 36 ac "Compound" in Limestone County

One is for hunting.
One is for retiring.

CanyonLakeAg said:

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Ranches have livestock and farms have crops.

If you have livestock or grow crops only for an ag exemption then you don't have a farm or ranch.

If you have a wildlife exemption then you don't have a farm or ranch.

Edit to add if you have more horses than cattle you don't have a ranch.

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Have you been around registered angus breeders? A lot of them will call themselves an angus farm, like "CanyonLakeAg angus farm".

It's probably just more angus marketing wizardry.

First you start "with a little place"

Then you get " some land"

Buy up the land around you and you have "our place"

Once you buy someone else's "place" you have a ranch if west of I35 and it's a farm if it's east of I35.

We have a leaseranchfarmette.

giddings_ag_06 said:

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This thread is dumb...

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It was meant to be a joke. So yeah it is dumb