The online version of the branding iron was unveiled Monday, as the federal and provincial governments officially launched the new Premises Identification Database (PID) to improve the response to ...

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 ...

The advertisement claimed there’d be less stress upon the cow. Clarence realized a need to purchase one right now. The electric branding iron had a shiny three-prong plug. Clarence made it two prong ...

The practice of identifying livestock to prove ownership, which dates to ancient Europe and came to the New World with the Spaniards, continues today in the form of brands. The esoteric symbols used ...

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 ...

QUANAH, Texas — Roddy Dean Pippin is a cattle rustler. It’s a strange modern-day occupation that comes with plenty of old job-related hazards, short of hanging. Early on, a mother cow spotted Pippin ...

On the Burdick Ranch, nestled in Nebraska’s Sandhills, spring cattle branding is an annual act of community. The sheer scale of gathering, roping, vaccinating, and marking 900 calves with the family ...

To the untrained eye, cattle brands, those unique markings seared into animals’ hides with a hot iron, might just seem like idiosyncratic logos or trademarks designed to clearly and simply indicate ...