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Brand Re-Registration Period Ends Feb. 29 in Texas

For Immediate Release: Feb. 10, 2012
Contact: Marissa Patton, 512-469-0171
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) reminds ranchers that the next brand re-registration period ends Feb. 29, 2012. The State of Texas requires that brands be re-registered in the county or counties where the owner operates every ten years.
Larry Gray, executive director of law enforcement at TSCRA, says that branding is the No. 1 way to prevent livestock theft. Livestock theft continues to be a common problem throughout the United States, especially with recent record high cattle prices.
TSCRA was established in 1877 to help prevent and solve agricultural crimes. Since then, the association’s law enforcement division has expanded to include 30 special rangers stationed throughout Texas and Oklahoma who work alongside local law enforcement agencies to protect citizens against agricultural crimes, including livestock theft.
Although Texas does not have a statewide brand registry database, TSCRA has market inspectors stationed at 105 Texas livestock auctions that collect brands and other identifying marks on 4 million cattle sold annually. They report this information to TSCRA headquarters in Fort Worth, where it is entered into the nation’s largest brand recording and retrieval system. This system currently houses more than 102,000 brands, the largest brand registry in the U.S.
This database is the first source checked when livestock is reported stolen, and has aided in the arrests of livestock thieves and the recovery of hundreds of thousands of stolen livestock.
Gray says that while Texas law does not require you to brand your cattle, he highly encourages it as a way to protect your business.
To help guide ranchers through the brand re-registration process, TSCRA has launched tscrabrands.com. Working in conjunction with the 254 county clerk offices, this site provides all the necessary paperwork and information to register brands, as well as information on current brands, designing and reading brands.

Written by:
Jeremy Fuchs
Published on:
February 10, 2012

Categories: General

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