Heartland AgricultureStreet Economics® · Florida's Heartland on a network and a lineage
Cattle and ranching · event or recognition

Open range era and the 1949 fence law

the closing of the range

Held
1949
Place
statewide
District
Outside the Heartland
Status as of 12 September 2026
Historical turning point.
Connections
3 edges, 3 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.016 (rank 67 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.000 (rank 211) · outside share 0.00
Confidence
Medium · sources: [IFASCR] [FLMR] [FHBP] (register)

Florida is the last state to pass a mandatory fence law, in 1949; tick eradication from 1923, extension work from 1930 and the new law push the cracker herds onto improved fenced pasture, the landscape the parcel roll still shows [IFASCR][FLMR].

Connections

Support

  • supportedParker Brothers Ranchthe brothers sell about 35,000 head as the open range closes1916
  • supportedAdams Ranchthe Braford breed is developed for the fenced pasture era1947 onward

Collaboration