

Ranching is a lot different that buying a boat or a vehicle. You would be surprised at the amount of livestock bought AND sold on the internet. Look up Superior Livestock, Northern Livestock, just to name a couple. Cattle are sold there on scheduled times throughout the season. Cattle are bought and sold on the internet sometimes on a daily basis. You really have no clue about modern day ranching and all the knowledge that goes into it. It's no longer about driving tractors and riding horses, sad to say. The internet is part of daily life on most ranches and farms. If the rancher doesn't do it, the ranch wife does, or maybe even a hired hand.
You really don't give us much credit. We are SURVIVORS!
So, when cattle, or other livestock, are bought online, how often, if any, does a rancher or farmer pickup what they bought or do they have it delivered to their ranch/farm?
As far as change goes in ranching, I've seen enough current documentaries about ranching to know how much it has changed, but there are still ranchers out there that still do it the old-fashioned way.
As far as farming goes, tractors are still used, but farm equipment today way outdoes the farm equipment that I used back in the mid-late 60's. I remember hooking up a corn picker to the old John Deere, Farmall or Case, along with a grain hauler behind the picker and taking off. I also remember, pulling a rope, behind the tractor seat, to let the plough blades down.
Actually, I would take today's farming and ranching equipment way over yesteryears. Then again, I absolutely love electronic stuff.