Cherry County, Nebraska, enjoys the distinguished title of being the largest beef cattle-producing county in the nation. In ...

The Nebraska Brand Committee, tasked with overseeing cattle brand registrations and enforcement over the western two-thirds of the state, reported that it had recovered more than 1,500 lost or ...

Late spring and early summer is branding time in the High Plains region, and even if some cow-calf producers don’t brand calves any more, many still work them at this time to set them up for ...

This is branding time in the Southwest, when cattle are rounded up and the calves are seared with the family mark. At one level, branding is pure drudgery, a sweaty, grunting, dusty chore to ...

Cattle branding is performed in the late spring months after the calving. Branding allows ranchers to keep track of their cattle on the open range and where there is more than one rancher ...

Haying has been in full swing, and we have been able to knock out quite a few fields. The first cutting is almost wrapped up ...

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 ...

CUSTER COUNTY -- Try to remember the last time you were in a hectic work setting where everybody seemed to be having a good time.

In the spring of each year, ranchers gather and brand their herds’ new recruits, continuing a tradition as old as the open ...

The calves were restless just off Bear Canyon Road Saturday morning. Renee Sundquist mounted her horse and roped one of them by its leg.

The calf needs to be branded, vaccinated and then have its ear lipped to mark that all the necessary work has been done. Time to move on to the next calf. When the branding was done, the day was ...

Branding is voluntary. Some cattle outside the designated brand area – roughly the western two-thirds of Nebraska – are branded and some within the area aren’t.