The process of moving cattle to shipping centers is referred to as "livestock transportation" and is often managed by freight management companies to ensure safe and efficient transit.
Bovine Logistics
Long Drive
Moving cattle from distant ranges to busy railroad centers that shipped the cattle to market
moving of cattle from distant ranges to busy railroad centers that shipped the cattle to market
Moving cattle from range land to the shipping railroad heads, before highways and trailer trucks were available.
The herding of cattle from Texas to railroad centers to the north was called a cattle drive. Cattle drives took many months to complete. Some of the cowboys would drive the cattle to Kansas and not want to go back to the ranch after being paid. Then ranchers would have to hire more hands the next cattle drive season.
Cattle Stockyards
cattle stockyards
Cattle stockyards
Not what, but rather who. And that would be the cowhands that rounded up the cattle and drove them to the railway stockyards.
Midwest
loading, load are what I can think of.
The shipping of cattle to the eastern market.