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 regulators want ranchers to ...

When you think of sentimental family heirlooms, a branding iron may not be front of mind for most people. But Kylie Graham's brand is just that. It was registered by her grandfather Monty Atkinson in ...

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 ...

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 ...

To enjoy a branding day – the work, the smells, the spectacle – it may not be necessary to have been raised to it, but it helps. I get an old excitement when I see ropers letting out their long loops, ...

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 ...

The concept of cattle branding may make some people squeamish, but the ancient practice is one of the main factors keeping the world’s cattle trade from falling into chaos. Of course, cattle rustlers ...