Curious of your thoughts on the term "Ranch".

[Traildust]

Yeah it was a good try to turn things south, but it didn't go as planned for him. Apparently I'm not alone in my thoughts on this.

Actually it did!

[GA Bowhunter]

I live on a 26 acre ranch with a 2 acre lake! Go ahead and add in the Pond/Tank/Lake debate in here as well! lol We call our land "the land" and the pond is a "pond".

If water (like a creek) runs through it I call it a lake. If it's an impound I call it a pond. Unless it's a big impound, then it's a lake.

[Rick]

It is a word, if you are a purist look it up in the dictionary and go by that. If not call your place what you want to, ranch, farm, land, place, whatever. Im in the don't care crowd...lol

[BBReezen]

Farm = crops, cultivation, self consumption and “enclosed” livestock production.
Ranch = roaming livestock on vast environment (pasture)
Land = just that, land

Chicken/pig/goat/sheep/horse farm

Cattle ranch

No chicken ranch!!!

I grew up on multiple hundred acres and always frowned upon folks calling their “land” a ranch or whatever. But, they’re not my kinfolks so I really don’t care anymore.

[TX03RUBI]

Sure seems to be a lot “Kevins” in here that get butt hurt about you asking what people’s definition is

[Tony Pic]

I have a 6.5ac piece that has about a dozen blackbuck, 6 chickens, beehives and birdhouses all over. Low fence area for free range whitetail and Axis. AG exempt.
Does that qualify? Just want to check before I spend money on a sign for the gate.

[Trevor73402]

Sure seems to be a lot “Kevins” in here that get butt hurt about you asking what people’s definition is

Ive pretty much come to expect it from this current crowd. I knew before I asked that Id get some responses dripping with booty aggravation. But I also got some good responses too, which gave some honest individual opinions (both aligning with mine and not) which is exactly what I was hoping for.

[Smart]

Those midwesterners are gonna be ****** at yall calling their farms, ranches..

[TB80]

I guess I never much cared what other people called their property.

[Fmjag64]

I was told realtors usually call 49 acres and down ranchettes. But even a 5k acre place, if they grow crops, i call it a farm and if you run cattle i call it a ranch. Farm crops, Ranch cattle. But im sure everyone grew up calling it something different. I never thought about it much lol. If it's a deer lease, i've always called it the lease.

[Rick]

Ive pretty much come to expect it from this current crowd. I knew before I asked that Id get some responses dripping with booty aggravation. But I also got some good responses too, which gave some honest individual opinions (both aligning with mine and not) which is exactly what I was hoping for.

When you title a post "what are your thoughts.....", you get peoples thought's. And they may be different from your own, it happens.

[jerp]

There are a lot of what people commonly call "hunting ranches" in Texas. Can you call it a "hunting ranch" if all the critters are wild and free range - not being raised like livestock?

[Bullydog]

I dont care what you call a place you own. I love my 35 acre ranch, so do my cows, horses, deer, kids and guns. I do miss the 3500 acre ranch I grew up on, just had more of those things I listed above, except for the kids part...

[monsterspike]

you can ride a shetland and call yourself a cowboy for all i care. or you can put your cat in the over and call it a biscuit.

texas, home of the 10 acre ranches just dont cut it somehow.

[TX03RUBI]

I was told realtors usually call 49 acres and down ranchettes. But even a 5k acre place, if they grow crops, i call it a farm and if you run cattle i call it a ranch. Farm crops, Ranch cattle. But im sure everyone grew up calling it something different. I never thought about it much lol. If it's a deer lease, i've always called it the lease.

Why about those that grow crops and run cattle? I grew up farming and ranching 5600 acres, and we lived on 120. We grew wheat on both, and ran cattle on both. We called the 120 the farm, and the 5600 the ranch. I dang sure didn’t think the farm was a ranch, but at the same time I don’t really care what anyone else refers to their land is. Except them Californians lol I laugh when they call 1 acre a ranch