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 ...

For the past 25 years, Chico Basin Ranch has been managed by Ranchlands, a ranching company owned and operated by the Phillips Family. The family has lost the lease and this was their final cattle ...

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 ...

BILLINGS, Mont. - While cattle producers in North Dakota and South Dakota are focusing more on the "natural" beef market, several Montana producers groups have been into the business for several years ...

A layer of dried mud left behind after the Missouri River floodwater receded from Sally Burkhiser's home cracked to reveal the blue living room carpet in Harbor 671 outside Tekamah Tuesday, September ...

Impacts from the multiyear drought and wildfires have not made cattle raising easy for California ranchers, some of whom have turned to direct marketing, diversification and other ventures to help ...

A family member I visited recently explained that she believes the star on the Texas flag came into being from the branding-iron symbol of one of the early families that ranched in the San Antonio ...

In the spring of each year, ranchers gather and brand their herds’ new recruits, continuing a tradition as old as the open grazing days of the Western frontier. For as long as cattle have roamed ...

McDonald’s said Monday it plans to invest $200 million over the next seven years to promote regenerative agriculture practices on cattle ranches. The Chicago burger giant said the investment was its ...