EditorialEveraldo Santos Melo, a cattle rancher who leads a local farmers’ union and is part of a growing number of landowners organizing against land occupations, in Itamaraju, Brazil, on April 16, 2023. (Maria Magdalena Arrellaga/The New York Times)
EditorialJacinto Gomez Sanchez, a cattle rancher, with some of the Maya artifacts recovered from the Sak Tz’i’ site in Chiapas, Mexico, June 14, 2022. (Meghan Dhaliwal/The New York Times)
EditorialAgee Smith, a fourth-generation rancher in northeastern Nevada, at the Cottonwood Guest Ranch in Wells, Nev. on Aug. 3, 2022. (Niki Chan Wylie/The New York Times)
EditorialJoel Ferry, a Republican state lawmaker and rancher who lives on the north side of the Great Salt Lake, in Corrine, Utah, March 16, 2022. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
EditorialLine judge Mark Stewart didn?t wear gloves (in the off-season he?s a rancher in Nebraska). He stared down the line of scrimmage, legs wide. Sometimes he shuffled sideways, sometimes he blew his whistle, or flipped the ball to the other game officials. His ears started to turn pink. (Elisha Cooper/The New York Times)
EditorialOdilon Caetano Felipe, a rancher, acknowledged that he had deforested land within the?Jaci-Paraná protected area. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)
EditorialCurtis Naseyowma, a Hopi rancher living in the village of Moenkopi, Ariz., examines his corn crop on the Hopi Reservation, Sept. 20, 2021. (Tomás Karmelo Amaya/The New York Times)
EditorialCurtis Naseyowma, a Hopi rancher living in the village of Moenkopi, Ariz., examines his corn crop on the Hopi Reservation, Sept. 20, 2021. (Tomás Karmelo Amaya/The New York Times)
EditorialBill McDonald, a rancher and lifelong Republican who voted for Joe Biden and is against the wall construction, in Douglas, Ariz. on Nov. 17, 2020. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)
EditorialRancher Jackie Ingram visits the cattle she takes care of for her grandchildren in Challis, Idaho, Nov. 7, 2019. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)