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 ...

That's what Monto's Peter Pownall discovered as he used the Queensland Cattle Brand Registry to track his family history back to 1872, when his great uncle first registered the family brand. The brand ...

Southwest Missouri beef cattle producers have shown a great interest in branding their cattle this winter and spring following several instances of cattle theft. With that growing interest in branding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brand your cattle always has been good advice, but it is more important in today's markets because of the higher values. A stolen cow can put a thousand dollars or more in a thief's pocket when the ...

Plenty of reasons to visit (or revisit) the Branding Iron Cafe at the Shasta Livestock Auction Yard in north Cottonwood — hearty breakfasts, the tri-tip and Cowboy sandwich at lunch, the smoked ribs ...