Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association

Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Inc., is an organization established in 1877 by forty Texas cattlemen for the purpose of combating unbridled livestock theft.

[2] More than 135 years later, the association acts as a trade association composed of large and small cattle producers located primarily in Texas and Oklahoma.

Other businesses dedicated to the betterment of the industry are also association members.

Twenty-nine livestock theft investigators or "special rangers"[4] employed by the association have law enforcement authority in Texas and Oklahoma in recovering stolen livestock.

TSCRA deals with legislative and regulatory issues, beef quality assurance, and rancher education.