As cattle values climb, accurate identification methods like branding and tagging are helping producers protect ownership.

The USDA will require electronic ear tags in cattle and bison crossing state lines, a long-debated policy the agency said will contain disease outbreaks and keep U.S. beef acceptable to other ...

The cow-calf producer organization R-CALF sued the USDA on Oct. 30 to stop the agency from requiring ranchers who move cattle and bison across state lines to use electronic identification ear tags.

“As a new year begins, cattle producers may find value in looking back at the previous year to evaluate the operation’s productivity and profitability,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri ...

Before a cow in Ireland ever becomes beef, it gets paperwork. Real paperwork. Every calf born since July 1, 1996, is registered almost immediately and tracked for its entire life through a national ...

USDA will start requiring that certain cattle and bison have electronic eartags, if they are to be moved from one state to another. “Rapid traceability in a disease outbreak will not only limit how ...

A Texas tradition of cattle branding may soon be a thing of the past for more than 13 million head in the state. There’s a new federal proposal to move to ear-tagging as the Department of Agriculture ...