Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,
I hope it's okay to post in your forum. I've driven through your state only once, and know so very little about it that it's embarrassing. I have done some internet research, but gotten info that is not really what I need.
I'm editing a book in which the author notes that a wealthy guy has a ranch in South Dakota. She says this ranch is 4000 acres.
We don't have ranches in Kentucky really. We have farms. And a farm is a different thing. I know of ranches out west that are 40,000 acres. So when I read 4000, that seemed small to me for a "ranch."
But South Dakota is not Wyoming or Montana, and I don't know how it is there.
All the internet stuff I find is about "farms" and the rise and fall of the average number of farms in your state, etc. Beyond that, these averages have no listing of maximum and minimum size, so it could include a farm that's 2.5 acres and a ranch that's 20,000, as they appear to lump it all together.
Nothing I can find speaks specifically about ranches, so I thought I would ask the people on the ground.
Close is good, as this is fiction. But it needs to be somewhat realistic.
Can any of you shed light on the realistic size of a big ranch in South Dakota?
I'm sure there are all sizes, very small to very large, but in this context, we are talking about a big ranch that a very wealthy investor/land owner might have.
Thanks in advance for any insight you can give.
Kitties.