What's the difference between pasture and ranch?

Pasture


Definition:

  • (n.) Food; nourishment.
  • (n.) Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
  • (n.) Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
  • (v. t.) To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
  • (v. i.) To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The experiment took place at two experimental localities in mountainous pastures of the Central-Slovakian region.
  • (2) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (3) The microbial populations of the rumens of seaweed-fed and pasture-fed Orkney sheep were examined.
  • (4) The pasture contamination and tracer calf worm counts remained consistently low until autumn when they began to increase.
  • (5) The relative resistance to different cattle ticks of Gudali and Wakwa cattle with different levels of Brahman breeding, grazed on natural pastures in the subhumid tropics of Wakwa, Cameroon, was assessed using pasture tick infestations.
  • (6) The growth study was carried out on Brachiaria brizantha pasture over a period of 48 weeks.
  • (7) Control of the time of weaning of calves, routine mineral supplementation and improved pasture management appeared to offer immediate possibilities for economically improving output of calves.
  • (8) Animals on overgrazed pastures are likely to suffer from inadequate feed intake because of deficiencies in feed quantity.
  • (9) Each field is like a room: mostly wheat or pasture but occasionally barley, oilseed rape, maize or broad beans.
  • (10) There was generally avoidance of pasture treated with badger urine up to 14 days old.
  • (11) Of these 48 strains, 43 (90%) came from the southern part of France in which B. melitensis infection in sheep and goats is enzootic and where the dissemination of this species by sheep flocks moving to mountain pastures most often accounted for cattle contamination.
  • (12) Procedures for breeding value estimation for reproductive traits under pasture mating conditions were developed and tested using a computer simulation model of genetic control of bovine reproduction.
  • (13) Minimal larval translation occurred during summer when meteorological conditions limited pasture infectivity as effectively as anthelmintic treatments.
  • (14) Marseille’s Ghanaian striker André Ayew has been a fixture in the King’s Cross crawlspace the Rumour Mill calls home for some months now, having announced his intention to leave the Ligue 1 side for pastures new and preferably Premier League this summer.
  • (15) Previously infected weaners underwent spontaneous cure within 6 weeks to 6 months of starting to graze safe pastures, Teladorsagia being reduced by 77 to 98%, Nematodirus by 9 to 94% and Trichostrongylus by 34 to 40%.
  • (16) The foals and yearlings were allowed to graze on open pasture throughout the experiment to provide a natural source for bot and helminth infections.
  • (17) Feces from infected calves and lambs were placed on pasture plots and samples of upper herbage, lower herbage, mat and soil were collected at five intervals per day throughout the daylight hours on 18 sample days over 12 months.
  • (18) Several steers, reared in isolation until approximately six months of age, were placed on a small isolated enclosed pasture from late spring to late fall of 1970, 1971 and 1972.
  • (19) Three-year-old, non-lactating and non-pregnant Merino ewes, raised on pasture under a program of strategic treatment with anthelmintic and found to be extremely resistant to "trickle" infection with Haemonchus contortus, were given single-dose infections with either H. contortus or Trichostrongylus colubriformis or both species together.
  • (20) A high number of spiders in the pastures (3-4 specimens per sq.

Ranch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.
  • (n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ranch and management x ranch effects accounted for more of the variation in shrink than PC did.
  • (2) These results indicate overall productivity estimates of 51 and 120 kg of weaner calf per cow per year and 86 and 188 kg of 18-month old calf per cow per year for the cattle post and fenced ranch respectively.
  • (3) But their joy didn't last long; a week later, 11 rhino were found on a single day at two private ranches northwest of Johannesburg.
  • (4) In the video, Pablo Hernan Sierra says he organised a militia that operated from the Guacharacas ranch owned by Uribe's family in the northwestern state of Antioquia in 1996 when Uribe was the state's governor.
  • (5) From the latter finding, it can be inferred that the 4 serodemes were present on the ranch throughout the study period.
  • (6) The practicing veterinarian or animal husbandman must evaluate the specific climatic conditions prevailing on the farm or ranch in question and integrate the components of that climate into the management or health practices to be recommended.
  • (7) In 2003 he was the subject of a documentary by the British filmmaker Martin Bashir in which he admitted to sleeping in the same room as children at his ranch.
  • (8) Other hobbies included watching husbands die, remarrying on the Southfork ranch lawn, and being played by a different actor for a season.
  • (9) Bundy is accused of recruiting hundreds of supporters to his ranch in 2014, where the US bureau of land management was making arrangements for his cattle to be impounded due to unpaid grazing fees and fines dating back to 1998.
  • (10) The potential impact on aquatic ecosystems of supplementing the diets of beef cattle with selenium (Se) was studied on 4 northern California ranches.
  • (11) The oil's back too, gushing forth on Southfork ranch within seconds of the start of the new pilot.
  • (12) All mink on the ranches were tested during the pelting season and before the breeding season for 4 consecutive years.
  • (13) Federal police had said they encountered a truck and took fire from its passengers before being led to the ranch.
  • (14) The frequency of trypanosome infection in Glossina morsitans submorsitans and G. tachinoides, at the game ranch of Nazinga (Burkina Faso), was examined.
  • (15) Local power officials at the meeting said the move would also cut power to several surrounding ranches and that the only way to isolate the wildlife refuge would be to send men to the site to cut the local lines.
  • (16) From serum specimens taken in 1982 and 1987, the median half-life of 2,3,7,8-TCDD in these Ranch Hand veterans was found to be 7.1 yr (95% confidence interval about the median of 5.8-9.6 yr).
  • (17) Half-body tick collections and visual assessment of tick burdens were performed monthly over six months on 100 bulls at the Kenya National Boran Stud, Mutara Ranch, Kenya.
  • (18) He claims that since he began working with lions at the ranch in January, the owners have not sold on any lions to be hunted.
  • (19) Rancher Cliven Bundy outside his ranch house on April 11.
  • (20) They are kept in a small pen behind the Lion's Den, a pub on a ranch in desolate countryside 75 miles south of Johannesburg.