Brief by Central Staff Local Politics – March 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine In our experience, the usual ranch gate consists of wooden fence posts and barbed wire to keep the cattle where they belong. In more prosperous operations, the gate might be metal, and a cattle-guard could be part of the installation. But if the “ranch” is actually a high-end real-estate development that contains cattle as a tax hustle (if you work it right, you can run cows on the property and call it “agricultural land,” which is taxed at a much lower rate), then an $80,000 automatic gate…
