SAN JOSE, Calif. — One of the West’s most enduring symbols is fading like a red-hot branding iron cools to ashen gray. With concerns over disease and global trade trumping tradition, federal ...

About 5%2C000 brands are registered in Missouri A cow/calf pair can go for %241%2C500-%241%2C800 Farmers form neighborhood watches to deter rustlers The Kleiboeker ...

FARGO — Cattle producers in North Dakota now have the option of using freeze branding as a way to show proof of ownership of their livestock. Under House Bill 1166, freeze branding became a legal ...

Late spring and early summer is branding time in the High Plains region, and even if some cow-calf producers don’t brand calves any more, many still work them at this time to set them up for success ...

As Mother Nature marks the much-anticipated arrival of spring with warmer, longer days, it too marks the time for ranchers to come together to participate in the annual rite of passage known as ...

Hot iron branding of livestock is the oldest form of permanent identification and has been used for a long time in the western United States as proof of ownership. Freeze branding is relatively ...

Florida has about 5%2C600 registered livestock brands. The Spanish brought the custom of branding livestock to the New World. Say "branding," and most folks think "advertising." But for many Southwest ...

STEVE CHIOTAKIS: Ranchers in the West say cattle branding with a hot iron is still the best way to separate their livestock from their neighbor’s. In Colorado, branding is mandatory. And a rancher’s ...