Changes to the Nebraska Brand Law, which protects livestock and its owners from theft by brand recording, have prompted a new approach from the state’s brand committee.
Nebraska Brand Committee Executive Director John Widdowson tells Brownfield the legislation makes a series of changes modernizing the state’s brand act. “We’re not changing hot iron branding and freeze branding,” he says. “We do have to start implementing new forms of technology, different ways of evidence of ownership and also different ways of doing brand inspection to just be more efficient and also to keep up with technology.”
The legislation supports electronic inspection, revises the registered feedlot fee schedule, lowers the physical inspection fee and revises other costs and reclassifies various violations of the law.
