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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — 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 ...

To the untrained eye, cattle brands, those unique markings seared into animals’ hides with a hot iron, might just seem like idiosyncratic logos or trademarks designed to clearly and simply indicate ...

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 ...