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Ranching

New World Screwworm

June 20, 2026 by Hope Ellis-Ashburn

With New World screwworm now detected in Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture continues to suspend imports of live cattle, horses and bison from Mexico as officials work to prevent further spread of the destructive parasite.

Categories Horse Health Tags cattlehealth, horsehealth, newworldscrewworm, Ranching Leave a comment

Silencing the Competition

November 4, 2025October 15, 2025 by Lindsay Humphrey
Jesse Pope standing next to the Silencer

Efficiency, safety and longevity are top of mind for everyone who works cattle at home on the ranch or on the rodeo trail. Moly Manufacturing is synonymous with quality equipment that makes the romanticized version of ranching just a little bit closer to reality.

Categories Management, Sponsored Content Tags cattle, Moly Manufacturing, Ranching Leave a comment

Writing and Ranching in South America

September 11, 2025September 8, 2025 by Jolyn Young
Andria Hautamaki helps her husband with ranch work and takes care of their daughter in Chile

Andria Hautamaki lives on a ranch with her husband and their baby by a mountain next to a river in southern Chile.

Categories Real Life Ranch Wife Tags Andria Hautamaki, Chile, Ranching, Real Life Ranch Wife Leave a comment

Labor Force

January 27, 2026June 25, 2025 by Ross Hecox
Eddie Thompson on his ranch horse "Nate" sorting cows

Day worker Eddie Thompson describes the tasks his string of ranch horses handles.

Categories Ranch Horses Tags flashback, Ranching 1 Comment

Things We Don’t Talk About: Mental Health, Depression and Addiction in Western Culture

January 27, 2026June 20, 2025 by Kailey Sullins
Jeremy Morris of Wild Courage

Mental health, depression and addiction are stigmatized in Western culture, but groups of working cowboys are banding together to encourage vulnerability and recovery through storytelling and connection.

Categories Culture Tags Cowboy Culture, Cowboys, Mental Health, Ranching, Western Culture 1 Comment

From the Lens: Scenes from Spring Branding

May 16, 2025May 16, 2025 by Kristen Schurr
branding irons

Join Western Horseman editor Kristen Schurr behind the lens for the first branding of the year.

Categories The Editor's Loop Tags Branding, branding season, from the lens, ranch horse, Ranch Work, Ranching, Roping, spring works, the editors loop Leave a comment

Penning and Working Wild Ones

April 10, 2025April 8, 2025 by Western Horseman
man with a rope around a corral

I am convinced that within that wind-swept, weed-grown corral, more colorful action of a dangerous sort had taken place than all the artists or writers on earth could possible imagine in a dozen lifetimes.

Categories Ranching Tags flashback, Ranching, Snubbing Post Leave a comment

Putting ‘Em on the Arizona Desert

September 19, 2024 by Chuck King
After being branded, the steers were turned onto desert pasture.

They crossed into the United States at the border town of Nogales, Arizona. Natives of Mexico, the 630-some head of steers were being taken to Van and Katy Jane Irvine’s newly acquired holdings northeast of Scottsdale, where they would be pastured. Van and his wife Katy Jane are Wyoming ranchers who added to their ranching … Read more

Categories Ranching Tags Arizona deserts, Ranching 1 Comment

Rooted in Ranch & Rodeo

May 17, 2024November 20, 2023 by Kate Bradley Byars
In addition to cattle and Quarter Horses, Riley and Jessica Routier are raising five kids who plan to make their living off the land.

In addition to cattle and Quarter Horses, Riley and Jessica Routier are raising five kids who plan to make their living off the land.

Categories Family Ranch Tags Jessica Routier, NFR, Ranching, rodeo 1 Comment
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