To Ranch or Not to Ranch: Home on the Urban Range?

Reproduction on the Ranch

Maintaining the Ranch topology

Topology maintenance, or how to handle the possibly concurrent joining and leaving of nodes, is acentral problem for structured peer-to-peer networks. A good topology maintenance protocol should runefficiently, fully maintain the topology, and should not unduly restrict concurrency. In this paper, wepresent such a protocol for a multi-ring topology called Ranch. The protocol is effi...

Ranch : A Dynamic Network Topology

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Causes of Farm & Ranch Failure

Many farm businesses are managed as one-man shows. Little financial information and almost none of the business decision-making functions are shared with others in the business or the family. There is seldom a plan for management succession or for developing backup management. Thus, when something happens to the only decision maker, many firms either fail or experience a traumatic adjustment pr...

Controlling Brush with Herbicides to Increase Ranch Profits

species using herbicides can improve forage availability and enhance ranch profitability by increasing the livestock carrying capacity of native pastures. However, deciding how and when to control noxious plants is crucial, and is generally more profitable on more productive soils with less brush. Factors that contribute to brush encroachment on rangelands include: • Fewer fires because of huma...