Ranchers or those crazy folks who buy a piece of land and use it only for grazing cattle.
Not all ranchers do. Microchipping every animal can be quite expensive, and it's often much more cheaper to use eartags to track their cattle.
Ranchers wanted to use the land to graze their cattle on and make money off of their cattle, whereas the farmers wanted to use that same land to grow their crops. Farmers didn't like (and they still don't) cattle free-ranging across their fields, and a bit of friction was caused between ranchers with their free-ranging cattle and the farmers who just wanted to plant a few plots of wheat for their families.
Yes.
Most, if not all.
After the Civil War Texas ranchers drove cattle in herds to Kansas because that is where the big stockyards were at the time. It was also a place for the Texas ranchers to use the railroad for shipping cattle elsewhere.
They don't use the rainforest. It's the land that the rainforest was once on that is used. Rainforests are cut down and burned to allow for more farming to be done, and grass seed to be sown so cattle can graze in those areas. The more land that a cattle baron can purchase, the larger his cattle herd can be and the more profit he can obtain when selling excess stock. Land that had been "improved" or been converted from rainforest to agricultural land is cheaper than land that has been used for agricultural purposes, thus making it a good investment for such ranchers to make as a means to increase their land size and thus their herd as well.
Example sentence - Many ranchers are now raising bison rather than cattle.
Example sentence - Many ranchers are now raising bison rather than cattle.
They herded them using horses and the best herding practices they could use to move cattle with and keep them together.
Ranchers primarily raised livestock on the open range, while sodbusters practiced crop farming on cultivated land. Ranchers had more freedom to move their animals over large expanses of land, while sodbusters focused on settling and farming specific plots of land. This led to conflicts over land use between ranchers and sodbusters in frontier regions.
It depends which area of the world you are in, if speaking of the Natives in Brazilian rain forests the conflict stems from the Natives use of poisonous blow darts to kill cattle while the ranchers are poaching the idolized red monkeys indigenous to the area.