Cattle Ranch Simulator Game
By Micah's Learning Resources
Put your students in charge of a cattle ranch for one summer. They move 100 cows and their calves through eight fenced paddocks, watch the grass, and decide when to spend on hay, water and repairs. Overgraze the land and the landowner ends the lease. What's Included: - A 3D ranch of 240 acres in eight fenced paddocks, with a creek, a windmill and a hay barn, and a seven-stop guided tour - Six rancher controls: move the herd, herd size from 20 to 160 pairs, hay feeding, water with hauling and creek fencing, land repair by reseeding or spraying, horn fly treatment - Live range readings: grass height and how much of it is eaten, cow condition, calf gain and weight, days of grass ahead, soil moisture, bare ground, weeds and creek banks - 14 weekly conditions, including a dry spell, a heat wave, soaking rains, a hailstorm, grasshoppers, dry lightning and a calf market slump - Real ways to fail: the landowner cancels the lease, or the bank calls the loan past its $20,000 credit line - A library of 12 real photographs, mostly from USDA and the Library of Congress, each explained against a choice students make in the game - A week 1 training run, a ranch handbook with a troubleshooting table, and a review after every week How It Works: Week 1 is a calm training week that walks students through a rancher's daily rounds on the real controls. Weeks 2 to 10 are drawn at random from 13 weather and market conditions, so each new game plays a different summer. Grazed grass, bare ground and
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