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Husbandry vs Ranching - What's the difference?

husbandry | ranching |

As nouns the difference between husbandry and ranching

is that husbandry is the raising of livestock and the cultivation of crops; agriculture while ranching is the business or activity of operating a ranch, of farming or raising livestock.

As a verb ranching is

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husbandry

English

Noun

(husbandries)
  • The raising of livestock and the cultivation of crops; agriculture
  • The prudent management or conservation of resources

    • Synonyms

    * agronomy

    See also

    * husbandman

    ranching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The business or activity of operating a ranch, of farming or raising livestock.
    • Ranching is his way of life.
  • A ranch.
  • * 1889 , an article on The Migrations of Plants'' by de Candolle, Stallybrass, Hooker and Wallace, published in ''The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal , volume 169, page 465:
    • At a later stage we may presume that other plants were found useful, such as the artificial fodder plants which began to be cultivated for cattle when the purely pastoral system of husbandry by nomad tribes came to an end, just as cattle ranchings will do in America at no distant date, it is said.
  • * 1938-1968', published in '''2001 in ''When prophecy still had a voice: the letters of Thomas Merton & Robert Lax, edited by Arthur W. Biddle , page 401:
    • (I am taken to mountains so high you can't breathe; step out of your capsule: zam! you are flat in the aspens. Surrounded in every dimension by solitary ranchings ; no sound but the lowing of kine, the flashings of cow-grass.)