Cattle brands aren't mandatory in Kansas, but that isn't stopping the state from deploying a new tech-savvy way to register the time-tested livestock markings. • Theo Douglas.

Cattle rustling may sound like a thing of the past, but the act of stealing livestock is still alive and well in Kansas. Early Kansas history is steeped in stories of long cattle drives moving through ...

To run the one-man Kansas’ Livestock/Brand Investigative Unit, state Attorney General Derek Schmidt tapped Lothman, the former sheriff of Kiowa County. A 22-year law enforcement veteran, ...

KDHE will hold a public hearing on Smoky Hills Pork, a proposed concentrated animal feeding operation north of Salina for ...

Other livestock theft prohibition methods: Do not leave cattle penned overnight. Be extra vigilant of activity near pens or pastures that sit near high-traffic areas like highways or interstates.

Top US cattle feeding companies sent 1,000-pound carcasses to a Kansas landfill, where they were flattened by loader machines and mixed with trash, after a June heatwave killed thousands of cows.

After a heat wave in Kansas killed at least 2,000 cattle in June, some social media users suggested that the deaths might be tied to billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates. "I'm a Texas cattle ...

Brands can be branded over but doing that in Kansas takes the act from a property crime, where the punishment depends on the criminal history of the offender, to a felony. “There are 18,000 ...

The cattle industry brought in $8.93 billion in 2019, 55% of Kansas’ agricultural revenue, and employed 37,382 people according to the Kansas Department of Agriculture. What To Watch For More ...

HAYS, Kan. (Kansas News Service) — Rancher Scott Whiting heard stories about all kinds of extreme weather […] The weather event that killed thousands of cattle in southwest Kansas last month ...

The weather event that killed thousands of cattle in southwest Kansas last month was a rare combination of extreme factors. But it highlights the ongoing risk that heat stress poses for cattle, ...