Acording to Cnn it is his most expensive posession.
What does the ranch produce.
All I see ,when reporters film from there,is old rundown buildings and the ocasional large hay bale.
Even the equipment ,farm machinery, appears to be old.
One of our part timers who’s home for the Summer attends Baylor. That’s in the area.
I asked him your question and his answer sounded like your observation. He says there’s just land (lots of it, mind you)and a few buildings.
Does the prez raise any crops? Not that our part timer could see, but there are cattle.
BTW, he says there are no signs in the region giving directions to, milage from or otherwise identifying Crawford. He doesn’t know whether this is for security reasons or if Crawford just ain’t worth a highway sign.
The Yahoo! map of Crawford, Texas. Location of GWB ranch not shown.
There are signs when you get close to Crawford. However it is a small enough town that it is not worth having signs up for very far away from it. If you are in that area, you’re going somewhere else or you already know where Crawford is. Either way, there’s not a whole lot there worth finding unless you already know what you’re looking for (if that makes any sense).
I drove through it once, and there isn’t much there. IIRC, while Bush’s ranch technically has a Crawford address, it’s not exactly close to the main portion of town.
Not true. I have a friend who has a ranch near Crawford, and I was there not too long ago. The signage coming out of Waco was perfectly normal. If there are no signs, they’ve been yanked in the last year or so, which sounds more like a college prank on journalists than a homeland security measure. Obviously there’s no big flashing sign to Bush’s doorstep, but no one is trying to hide Crawford. It is a very small town, so it doesn’t rate much signage until you get close, just like any other small town off major highways.
I have no idea what Bush’s ranch produces, but it’s a big chunk of land and I think he has some ranchhands there full time working cattle.
Oddly enough, the ranch is an eco-freak wet dream.
http://www.ofee.gov/whats/workshop.htm
But perhaps that just because these are cheaper ways to do things that far from the big city grid.
Isn’t a “ranch” usually something for cattle or horses? And a farm something for raising crops? Even though here in Michigan we call them both “farms.” Any maybe a “ranch” would have some crops for the purpose of feeding the animals.
Anyway, that’s just idle speculation that maybe it’s a perfectly good ranch that’s not supposed to have any crops.
Bush’s Mexican counterpart, Vicente Fox, also has a “ranch,” but it’s a working farm with a lot of produce, and one actually has access to the fields (we drove back there). There aren’t a whole lot of signs, but everyone knows where it is. Fox even gets out of his suburban to shake hands with the crowds (at least he did on Christmas day 2001 :)).
I point this out because I think Fox would be a much more opportune taget than Bush. Sure, maybe more people would want to assasinate Bush in this world than Fox, but you’d have to imagine that Fox’d be a much easier target, especially in a country known for political corruption. (Just for Carnivore’s sake, I don’t want to assasinate anyone.)
FWIW, I used to tool around Waco (well, to look at the hotties at Baylor [I’m more mature now] and see the Dr. Pepper Museum) back before Bush was even governer.
That’s it; nothing to contribute beyond that.
My dad lives about a half an hour away from bush’s ranch in texas that damn close, anyway yeah the ranch dont produce anything, but thats not the purpose of a ranch ranches are for horses and mabye cattle. My dad also lives near chuck norris haha. I saw him riding a horse when i was down there.
Bush’s ranch is for investment and recreation. It also allows him a large place to go back home. Now, LBJ – he had a RANCH. That place is huge. It did, and still does, produce cattle. That was the family business before, during, and after politics. It is the source of the Johnson fortune. Compared to LBJ, Dubya’s ranch ain’t nuthin’.
IIRC correctly, sombody asked GWB during the campaign what his ranch produced, and he said “backache” or something like that.