NEW YORK — Each year, when the bucking bulls arrive at Madison Square Garden, livestock trailers pull into 33rd Street and back up to ramps that lead five floors up to the arena. J James Gorman Follow ...

John Growney, left, and Drew Blessinger talk about the livestock contracting business at the St. Paul, Ore., Rodeo. Bucking bulls and horses offer a unique business opportunity for livestock producers ...

Buying rodeo bulls is not just for cowboys and ranchers anymore. Taking a page from the race horse industry, rodeo bull-breeding companies such as Orchard, Texas-based Exclusive Genetics are marketing ...

After a long day of working bulls, Beni Paulson pours a celebratory splash of watered-down blackberry brandy into a thermos cup as his sidekick Pearl, a 5-year-old mini Australian shepherd, provides ...

Las Vegas — Under the hot lights and cheering crowds at the Orleans Casino Arena, rancher Don Kish, a solidly built man with the rosy skin of good health and good humor, shoves back his cowboy hat and ...

Breeding and raising a prize-winning bucking bull is like creating any other great animal — it begins with genetics. Mike Ward has been producing bucking bulls on his L4 Livestock ranch near North ...

The enormous bull bursts out of the chute, bucking and kicking his legs so high he’s nearly vertical. He leaps around in circles, with the rider gripping a rope wrapped around his chest, trying to ...

Ridin’ Solo, the bull defending his title of the YETI Pro Bull Riders World Champion Bull this year in Fort Worth, isn’t as mean as he looks. Just don’t climb on his back. Ridin Solo, all 1,500 pounds ...