Episode 309 - High Country Ranching   addthis
The ranching life style in the Heartland is based on generations of tradition. But in some parts of Colorado’s high plains, a few ranchers have elected to break away from the herd. They tell Paul Ryan they’ve found a better way to ranch – by trading in their cattle for a few hundred animals whose ancestors have been wandering these plains for thousands of years.

 

  

Want to know more?
Female elk can weigh more than 500 pounds. At birth, an elk baby can weigh 35 pounds and gain two pounds a day in their first weeks. Livestock accounts for the majority of Colorado’s agricultural income. And Colorado ranchers raise not only Cattle, Bison and Elk, but Ostriches, Llamas, goats and Emus.

Links
Colorado Farm Bureau
Colorado Department of Agriculture

Purchase this DVD
Purchase a DVD of this show.
blog comments powered by Disqus
The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture, Farm Credit, and the United Soybean Board make presentation of America's Heartland possible.
American Farm Bureai Foundation for Agriculture            Farm Credit           United Soybean Board


Additional production and promotion assistance is provided by
The American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association, National Cotton Council,
U.S. Grains Council, National Association of Wheat Growers, the National FFA Organization, and
United Egg Producers

 

A production of KVIE Public Television, Sacramento, California. Distributed byAmerican Public Television
©2012 KVIE, Inc. All rights reserved.
Home | Search