The Chinese were branding cattle several thousand years ago. The herdsmen of Israel (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, etc.) also branded their livestock. The practice may have originated in ancient Egypt; ...

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 ...

The first squeeze chute created specifically for horned cattle was designed by Darol Dickinson (Dickinson Cattle Company) who has raised Longhorns for 65 years. His chute went through several ...

A Dillon man charged with illegally branding cattle pleaded no contest Tuesday and was given a three year deferred sentence by the judge in the case. Harold Brown was charged with 114 counts of ...

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.