Ranchers Reading

[Nigel]

As some of you may remember I live in England but my mind lives with you guys out on the ranches. I live my life vicariously through your postings here . I was recently reading "The Modern Cowboy" by John Erickson, in it he mentions of Livestock Weekly being the magazine most cowboys/ ranch hands read. I looked at their website and it looks like publication is centered around TX, OK and the surrounding states. No offense to anyone in that area but I am looking for a similar magazine that covers WY, MT and the more northerly states. If I get the chance to look for some ranch work, thats the area I am looking for, so I figured it best to subscribe to something in that area. Does anyone have suggestions for a good periodical? I already subscribe to Working Ranch which is an excellent mag.

 

[Nicky]

Cascade Cattleman, and Western Cowman are both good.

 

[rancherfred]

My favorite ranching mag is Range. It is not a weekly news digest, but rather a quarterly lifestyle/political magazine. It has some production practice articles, some human interest articles, some humor articles and quite a bit of political articles. It is definitely pro-western lifestyle/freedom loving/rugged individualist in tone. There is a lot of anti-environmentalist/pro-conservationist flavor to the articles. If this appeals to you then you will probably enjoy it, if not it will probably give you heartburn.

 

[Blkbuckaroo]

All those are good reading,i get all of them,there's also western livestock journal-which is out of wyoming i believe and Capital Press which covers Oregon ,California & Washington.Ranch World Ads which is more of a buckaroo- californio tradition type mag,I would say just surf the net in the area you like and you'll find lots of local mags and papers wiht jobs and articles.

 

[High Plains]

Western Livestock Journal would be an excellent representation of a weekly paper that covers more of the central to northern Rocky Mountains and High Plains area. You can get a glimpse at www.wlj.net. It's published out of Denver, Colorado, but reaches all across the region. There is also the Western Livestock Reporter published in Billings, Montana. It would have similar content. I prefer the Journal, myself.

HP

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

From Canada the Western Producer for a weekly newspaper and classifieds.

A monthly is the Canadian Cattleman,