Tagged: Ranchers–Cattleman Action Legal Fund

After a three year battle, a symbol of the American west—the cattle brand—will be preserved in new rules governing livestock identification.

The comment period for proposed U.S. Department of Agriculture rules on Animal Disease Traceability will come to a close late tomorrow evening at 10 o’clock.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will publish a proposed rule later this week that would remove hot-iron cattle branding from the list of official livestock identification methods available to cattle producers. And that doesn’t sit well with some Colorado ranchers moving livestock across state lines.