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In the 1930s Humble oil co. discovered oil on the ranch. They have a total of 2730 oil wells on the whole ranch
The whole ranch in Texas has two thousand miles of fencing to keep in good repair. They needed 350 windmills to keep an adequate amount of water flowing. It took a crew of 20 men as full time workers to maintain these windmills.

In 1946 the ranch started buying land outside Unionville, Pennsylvania for a fattening farm for its Santa Gertrudis cattle. The fattened cattle were then shipped to slaughter houses in some eastern cities. This ranch farm was eventually expanded to where it encompassed 12,500 acres.
Each spring they would ship 5,000 young cattle to the farm from the Texas ranch to fatten them up for marketing. On the available grasses each head of cattle could put on up to two pounds each day. They would be shipped in at about 650 pounds, and by the time they left they would weigh up to 1000 pounds.

In the early 1940s they went heavy into horse breeding and in 1946 had a triple crown winner in Assault. Again in 1950 they won the Kentucky derby and the Belmont stakes with a horse named Middleground. By 1947 the ranch had 2900 quarter horses and 82 racehorses. Then in 1946 the ranch bought a 680 acre bluegrass farm for the racehorses in Kentucky.

They also have 30,000 acres in south Texas, that is being used for growing cotton. If you figure an average of 740 pounds of cotton per acre, this means the ranch gets over 22 million pounds of cotton yearly. Today the ranch is one of the largest cotton producers in the United States. Between the years 1999 and 2005, the ranch got 8.3 million in farm subsidies for raising cotton.

King ranch is a 78% owner of consolidated citrus lp, the largest orange juice producer in the United States. The total acreage for the groves was about forty thousand acres of citrus trees in Florida.
The ranch also has about 12,500 acres of sugar cane in southern Florida. From this sugarcane there is about 120,000 pounds of sugar produced annually. They also make about 3.5 million gallons of molasses annually from this sugar cane.
King ranch sod operations in Florida is one of the top ten sod producers in Florida. It has three sod farms that total about 3,700 acres in southern Florida.

King ranch also purchased the Young pecan company one of the worlds largest shellers of pecans. Then bought the assets and operations of Southwest nut company. Southwest and Young are combined to be the largest processor of pecans in the world.