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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Brand your cattle always has been good advice, but it is more important in today's markets because of the higher values. A stolen cow can put a thousand dollars or more in a thief's pocket when the ...