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 ...
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 ...
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — The air around the Stanko Ranch just outside of Steamboat Springs is filled with the dust created by moving cattle, the clanking of steel gates and the steady drone of calves ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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