In the spring of each year, ranchers gather and brand their herds’ new recruits, continuing a tradition as old as the open ...

Tips Have plenty of help so the same team of people can clip, time and place freeze brands on the entire group of cattle in order to maintain brand consistency. If freeze brands do not match ear tags, ...

Take a quick trip with us to Beaver Falls, Pa., the hometown of Broadway Joe Namath and an impressive fleet of classic Oliver ...

When he's not in the Capitol or the governor's mansion in Pierre, you will find Governor Larry Rhoden in his welding shop on ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient necropolis near the Nile River have uncovered a 3,500-year-old burial site of a ...

HELENA -- In vintage political theater in front of Montana's Capitol, Gov. Brian Schweitzer wielded three red-hot branding irons to burn "VETO" messages on some Republican bills Wednesday as a ...

One of those irons, a heart-shaped brand, was compared against brands on the left hip of some of the cattle. The size and shape fit the iron.

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 ...

I’m a clueless greenhorn. This was just the third branding I’ve seen since arriving in Kearney in June 2012, and my city eyes watched as if I were a spectator at a well-rehearsed sporting event.

Cattle ranching is one of Arizona's original Five C's, along with citrus, cotton, copper and climate. Ranchers still graze cattle on Arizona's rangelands, but are wary about urban growth and ...

By Greg Talbot, CEO, Tal-Tec Branding livestock has been an essential practice in South Africa and the world for over 6,000 years. Serving as a means of identifying and tracking livestock. In South ...