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 ...

In an age of computers and laser-light bar codes, a hot-iron brand is still the only legal identification for livestock in Montana. And those who own those brands are reminded to re-register them soon ...

“Hot-iron branding constitutes animal abuse,” said Bruce Friedrich of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an animal-rights organization pushing for better living conditinns for livestock.

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, regulators want ...

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 ...

“Proper identification is key to management of cattle for optimum production and profitability,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension regional livestock field specialist.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Ranchers are being nudged further into the computer age by a former New Mexico state brands supervisor who has developed software that instantly matches hot-iron brands with cattle ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lest you think cattle rustling, tracking down stray dogies and inspecting the brands on cattle are quaint remnants of Colorado’s wild West past, you should ...

Brand inspectors have been on the job longer than Colorado has been a state. The livestock industry formed the brand board in 1865, when Colorado was still a territory; the brand board became a state ...

Globally, many countries have introduced the use of individual animal identification and registration based on application of numbered electronic or printed ear tags on an animal and storage of owner ...