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 ...

Cody Burlile has memorized many of the 18,000 brands used by cattle owners in Idaho. He knows all six of the places a rancher can legally apply those brands to an animal. He can identify multiple ...

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 ...

When the Southern Nevada Water Authority bought the El Tejon ranch in White Pine County last May, the agency also acquired some livestock and an unusual problem. Suddenly, the wholesale water supplier ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Livestock Branding Amendments, sponsored by Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, would define livestock emergencies, address the trade of livestock on websites, and propose new penalties to ...

Livestock brands tell many stories of an industry and of families in the language of the plains. Behind the marks of ownership are centuries of history at least as old as the Egyptian pyramids.

Livestock brands open windows into history.They uncover stories.They fill in missing pieces to events forgotten or left ...

The North Dakota Stockmen’s Association is rolling out an electronic brand inspection records program for individuals who sell livestock. The NDSA brand inspection office launched the electronic ...

Well before dawn, twin brothers Jarrod and Justin Johnson and their father, Carl, saddle their horses and ride out, leaving behind the glow of the main house at the Diamond and a Half ranch. With nine ...