Farms: Arkansas Buffalo Ranching - America's Heartland

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L.C. Ratchford has an unusual ranch with unusual livestock. The Arkansas rancher raises buffalo. Reporter Rob Stewart heads to the pasture with L.C. to get up close with these largest of North American land animals. L.C. says the majestic buffalo is a fitting symbol for America.

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But of course he is farming buffalos for the same reason as Buffalo Bill shot them.
For their meat.
We had so much more buffalo but barbaric white people killed majority of it.
At 2:04 They actually were extinct in the US. So, Americans had to take Canadian bisons for repopulation.
I'll be honest, I felt really teary eyed around 1:26.... so amazing to be that close. So sad to see such an animal hunted to near extinction just to decimate another type of species (humans; Native Americans). Glad they are coming back.
Beautiful. Simply beautiful.
keep on ranching Buffalo/Bison and other ( non traditional ) ranch animals in America we welcome the diversity of new flora & fauna.
I started tearing up watching this, it reminds me of what America was and what it could have been.
I put this video on mute because I was just using the images of the magnificent buffalo to help me write 'heartland' sounding music on my piano, then suddenly 3:25 happened. Wasn't expecting that. Kinda killed the mood a little.
I wish I was this guy.