Brands were, and continue to be, a critical element of the cattle industry unless –bonus fun fact!– you happen to have been 19th century Texas politician and rancher Samuel A. Maverick, who ...

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 ...

“Branding still has its place: It’s a means to identify cattle within a state. But we are a global economy. We no longer have the luxury of saying we will only do business within our own ...

Cattle brands aren't mandatory in Kansas, but that isn't stopping the state from deploying a new tech-savvy way to register the time-tested livestock markings. News. Analytics; ...

GARFIELD COUNTY, Colorado ” A historic cattle brand from Divide Creek raised $44,000 for the Holy Cross Cattlemen’s Association Scholarship Fund. Most importantly to some, the brand is being kept in ...

(Flickr image from Coca-Cola South Africa) Language is supposed to illuminate meaning, but it doesn’t always work that way. As usage evolves, definitions become unmoored, and different people ...

For ranchers like Poole, Tuesday was an important date on the calendar. The day, Aug. 31, marked the beginning of the once-a-decade cattle brand renewal process in Texas.

It’s not unusual for people to be charged with cattle theft or leaving the Nebraska brand area without inspection, according to representatives of the Nebraska Brand Committee.

June is always quilt month at The Orphanage. This year the gallery will be shared by Yuma quilter Donna McPheron and an array of cattle brand quilts made, over the years, by various members of the ...