KING RANCH ?

jCarroll · Dec 29, 2016

GOOGLE EARTH shows almost perfect rows of vegetation, and in-between spaces of shrubs/trees/
What makes this pattern? Or the purpose?

coshoo · Dec 29, 2016

People think King Ranch is a cattle outfit on hundreds of thousands of acres of Texas range land. Actually, its many thousands of acres of mostly crop land south of Houston. They have some cattle, but mostly row crops.

Richard L · Dec 29, 2016

Shucks I am wrong again. I thought it was an expensive Ford pick up.

gene bender · Dec 29, 2016

trees are planted to stop wind erosin

Russ from MN · Dec 29, 2016

I thought it was an expensive golf course here in AZ!

flying belgian · Dec 29, 2016

I thought King ranch was in Nevada and was something entirely different.

dcarp · Dec 29, 2016

It's actually located near Kingsville, TX located between Corpus Christi & Brownsville. That's a long ways southwest of Houston, probably 300 miles.

da.bees · Dec 29, 2016

Salad dressing.

2x4 · Dec 30, 2016

naughty, naughty!

Texas Cowboy · Dec 30, 2016

King Ranch is currently 825000 acres running between 35 and 40 thousand head of cattle and several hundred horses. They originated the Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle and a great line of Quarter horses. If that doesn't make them a cow outfit I don't know what does. They do have an extensive farming operation also. At one time it was the largest ranch in the world I don't know if it still is or not. The north end of the ranch is about at Kingsville Texas which is 40 to 50 miles south of Corpus Christi. Tony

Texas Cowboy · Dec 30, 2016

It may be brush sculpting to enhance wildlife habitat it also helps grow more grass without removing all the cover. Tony

john in la · Dec 30, 2016

I would say you are right as they have 770,000 acres in pristine wildlife habitat. They are very big in hunting and exotic hunting with 12,000 nilgai (largest Asian antelope) on their land.

They also have big farms in Florida where they are the largest juice orange producer in the United States among other things.

rrlund · Dec 30, 2016

For your Burger King salad?

Mike M · Dec 30, 2016

That's the chicken ranch.

Andy C · Dec 30, 2016

King Ranch owned 10000+ acres here in S.E. PA They purchased it during the late 40s/early 50s. They turned all the farms they bought into pasture.Cattle were shipped from Texas and grown out here. They were then finished in feed lots that still exist today although not used for cattle anymore.It was quit an operation. It has been sold off now but one of the heirs still lives in the area on some of the property.

gene bender · Dec 30, 2016

south of CORPUS CHRISTI is the gulf or at least it was when i was there

Billy Shafer · Dec 30, 2016

Chicken ranch was in Texas. Mustang ranch was in Neveda.

Pete in MD · Dec 30, 2016

It reopened in 2005 in Sparks, NV near Reno.

welled · Dec 30, 2016

Toured the ranch last year and it was a wonderful experience. They have two levels of tours. One is a standard bus tour that is relatively cheap but does not get in close to the feed lots and crop areas. We opted for a private tout that includes narrated tour into the fields, feed lots feed mills, hunting areas, etc. Much more expensive but well worth the costs.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 30, 2016

They must own a whole lot of trucks too as I see their name on a bunch of them(LOL)

JayinNY · Dec 30, 2016

Me too! Lol

Secret Squirrel · Dec 30, 2016

The Ponderosa was in/near Nevada I believe. We had an elderly neighbor that thought it(the tv show)was a true story. He always talked about the Cartwright Boys.

Texas Cowboy · Dec 30, 2016

Ok southwest

Tom OConnor · Dec 30, 2016

One thing that they don't advertise is the fact there are two pipelines coming off the ranch, one with natural gas and the other crude oil that pays a lot of the bills.

krm · Dec 30, 2016

I am glad we got that problem all solved. NOT!

ptfarmer · Dec 30, 2016

1950 clearing the King Ranch in Texas with a "Siamese" D8 Cat dozer.

Delawaresurfman · Dec 30, 2016

Andy, you are correct about the King Ranch in PA. I have worked many times at the estate doing tree work. The caretaker from the estate gave us the rundown. The moved there because of the railroad. He is directly from Ireland and works as the farm manager. He gets a house, 1 steer a year and electric and local phone calls. Works like a madman for I'm sure a small salary. I'll think of their name right after I type this I'm sure. It was not King, I do know that. Their house was a old stone house that's about a half mile from the road. It had a date stone in the top of the roof, over 100-150 years old. It looked like it had been there forever but was actually moved to the current location. They moved it stone by stone, numbered everything. It was an original stone house that was right along the road, which I believe is Rt. 82. I'd have to look that up also. They mainly seemed to be into racehorses now at the Pa. location.

J. Schwiebert · Dec 30, 2016

What county is the King ranch in? One day a year when I sub for the Ag department classes are in the computer lab. There is a county in Texas that has less than 100 people. I was thinking it was King County?

Billy Shafer · Dec 30, 2016

Last time I was through it. Loving county had 93 people.

Logan in SE Texas · Dec 31, 2016

If memory serves the King Ranch is in Kleberg County, Texas. Kingsville, Texas is on US Hwy 77 about 30-40 miles inland from Corpus Christi, Texas and is at the northern end of the King Ranch. If you are ever in the area I highly recommend that you get off the big hiway and go into downtown Kingsville to the King Ranch Store, you're probably not going to buy much as the prices are high for top quality merchandise but they have a working saddle shop and a lot of neat stuff to look at and they don't mind people wandering in and looking around. Back in the '90's I had the privilege to hunt quail on two separate parcels of the King Ranch.

CCCHS77 · Dec 31, 2016

(quoted from post at 04:50:15 12/31/16) If memory serves the King Ranch is in Kleberg County, Texas. Kingsville, Texas is on US Hwy 77 about 30-40 miles inland from Corpus Christi, Texas and is at the northern end of the King Ranch. If you are ever in the area I highly recommend that you get off the big hiway and go into downtown Kingsville to the King Ranch Store, you're probably not going to buy much as the prices are high for top quality merchandise but they have a working saddle shop and a lot of neat stuff to look at and they don't mind people wandering in and looking around. Back in the '90's I had the privilege to hunt quail on two separate parcels of the King Ranch.

The King Ranch is in Kenedy county. Sarita is the county seat.

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