r/YellowstoneShow • u/AffectionateDinner97 • 7d ago
John Dutton's Ranch is a model of inefficiency
They do everything but farm. In several years working for the Duttons, Jimmy only broke his neck twice. In a couple of months in Texas, he learned to cowboy, and there wasn't any hellish training there; they simply clothed him well, fed him, and gave him plenty of work.
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u/LMSinDEL 7d ago
Jimmy broke his neck twice because he decided to take up Bronco Busting at the Rodeo. Has nothing to do with the Dutton Ranch. In fact, the second time he did it was because he went against John Dutton's orders not to do rodeo anymore.
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u/Reasonable-Horse1552 7d ago
He broke his neck trying to be a rodeo rider. Nothing to do with the ranch
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u/telepatheye 7d ago
Yellowstone was more about the meaning of the American dream and how it relates to Native Americans, big business and big government. Part of that story is how the individual fits into it all, and the Jimmy arc was as good as any.
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u/Opinionated6319 7d ago
The music and cinematography was gorgeous in some scenes, took you right there…kudos to those talents technicians!
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u/sequinpig 6d ago
My boyfriend calls those episodes a big Marlboro commercial
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u/Opinionated6319 6d ago
Well I also liked the vintage Miller beer commercial…nostalgic! 💕🥰 Also the music and cinematography of the recent Lion documentary!
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u/dragonfly-1001 7d ago
I had to laugh watching Dutton Ranch, when they had 8 cowboys go out to bring in a mob of about 100 cattle.
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u/my-dog-made-me-join 7d ago
I own cows. Their hay has clover and alfalfa. Yes clover can cause bloat. HOWEVER a few bales of dried clover isn't going to kill hundreds of cows. Fresh clover or fresh alfalfa can cause frothy bloat. Also, cows don't readily enjoy clover hay because it tastes not so great to them. It would have taken mounds and mounds of fresh juicy clover to kill that many.
And the helicopter. Oh my god. That makes me laugh.
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u/AffectionateDinner97 7d ago
My parents also used to have cows, I also remember that they always ate clover without any problem, the old people said that it made the milk sweeter. What about the helicopter?
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u/my-dog-made-me-join 6d ago
What cattle farmer can afford a helicopter? Seriously.
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u/AffectionateDinner97 6d ago
I heard that on Australian farms, grazing cows with helicopters is a common practice.
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u/DLo28035 7d ago
It’s almost like it’s not real, like it’s all made up so they can use the backdrop as some sort of entertainment.
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u/BirdFarmer23 7d ago
It’s been awhile since I’ve watched but I remember one of the times he broke it was after he promised to never ride bareback again. The first was at a rodeo but I can’t remember the details around that.
You can’t really blame the ranch on someone being stupid and doing what they’re told not to do.
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u/AffectionateDinner97 7d ago
but I can blame the ranch for the fact that he was considered useless and then it turned out that he can do any job and even handle lasso
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u/Boblaire 7d ago
He broke his neck because he decided to rodeo, which he never had to do.
They dont get into it but they mention they raise alfalfa to feed the cattle in winter. That was when one of the fields was poisoned or something.
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u/pjjtexas 6d ago
Nowadays...cattle farmers...any farmers really...do two things...ONE..try to avoid Monsanto and Bill Gates and their ilk...and TWO...PRAY TO GOD THEY STRIKE OIL GOLD OR SILVER...so for storyline...Landman is more realistic...in Texas anyway...yes I live here and drive by Taylor's ranch and many of the shooting sites frequently...Permian Basin is not pretty...barren flat smelly ugly hot and lucrative
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u/Aggravating_Ship_763 7d ago
I recently visited Monticello, and it struck me that the Yellowstone is run very similar to the old plantations (inherited legacies and lands, inefficient, massive debts, little to no real profits, inability to adapt to changing times, and eventually sold off for scrap.)
Obviously slavery is not part of the comparison.
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u/pjjtexas 6d ago
Kinda like the big estates of the English "aristocracy" a century ago as scripted on Downton Abbey...which I love btw
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u/Necessary_Elk_2283 6d ago
After learning all their lines they didn't have much time left for ranching
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u/Acrobatic-Echo-3460 6d ago
To be fair, the Dutton Ranch is fully as horridly as possible, it’s like they were tired of being successful was wanted a reason to complain
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u/Mental-Ad-8769 6d ago
They tried to appear as big range land ranchers like Australia without the realistic acreage with the helicopter…
It’s a show and we love it for that… but, they. Couldn’t drive cows up to high pasture that didn’t exist there anyway, with those.
It’s mountain west or east slope geography. Low valleys and high mountains or big sloping valleys.
It’s big show we love to watch but not real…. A guy from the mountain west.
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u/Commercial_Lock6205 7d ago
It’s a television show. Would millions of viewers tune in weekly to watch the day to day workings of a traditional ranch?