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 family ...

BOWMAN, N.D. — Branding season is a busy time for ranchers in western North Dakota. That’s why one group of boys lends their neighbors some extra hands. The Bowman Branding Company consists of ...

BANNACK, Mont. — A livestock brand proves ownership. It ties generations of families to their land and ancestors. The practice dates to the ancient Egyptians. But most of us know it as an iconic ...

The smell of burning rawhide cuts through the morning air near Raleigh, N.D., each spring as hot iron leaves its mark on cattle - the same now as it did in the days of the Old West. Branding is a part ...

BROKEN BOW, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - As the five horseback riders disappeared behind a pasture hill on a blustery late April morning, a meadowlark sang in the rustling tall grass. An hour later, ...

On nearly every western ranch, calves are branded and vaccinated before they go with their mothers to summer pastures. Many western ranchers depend on rangeland for summer grazing — often public ...

Branding irons are kept hot in a homemade furnace. On June 12, 205 calves were branded and vaccinated at the first of several 2021 Cross Diamond branding days needed for the commercial herd of ...

Branding is filled with tradition and learning for the next generation in the eyes of Matt Kammerer. “That K reverse K that goes on my calves is my grandpa’s brand and it’s deep, that is the soul of ...

Two days before one of the biggest days of his life, Colston Loveland went out to participate in a ritual he’d done for most of his life. He branded some calves. Loveland met up with some family and ...