A cool, wet spring keeps cool-season grass lush later than usual, and that's exactly the setup that pulls a nursing cow's magnesium…
June is the window to knock back leafy spurge, spotted knapweed and the other noxious weeds cheating your grass out of a…
First cutting is no time to find out your swather sickle is worn out or your baler knotter is dropping half-tied bales.…
Grass hay put up a few points too wet heats in the stack long after the baler shuts off. Here's how to…
Riding and fixing fence before and right after turnout is dull work, but a single down wire or a washed-out water gap…
Grass grows fastest in June, but the way you graze it now sets how much you'll have in August. Leaving enough leaf…
Warm, still June weather can turn a stock pond toxic in a matter of days. Here's how blue-green algae kills, what to…
Fire season in Montana runs on grass that cures brown by late June. A little work now — firebreaks, mowed defensible space,…
Green summer grass looks like it covers everything a cow needs, but copper, selenium and phosphorus don't come with it. A weak…
Anaplasmosis hits older cows hardest, spreads on biting flies and shared instruments, and doesn't show its hand until late summer. Here's how…
Two-year-olds are still growing while they raise their first calf and try to breed back. Miss their nutrition in June and you…
On big summer country, cattle graze the easy ground hard and leave the ridges standing. Salt and mineral placement, water, and a…
Turnout isn't the finish line on bull management. Bulls get hurt, get whipped, and quit settling cows in the middle of the…
Early-summer heat waves hit Montana cattle before they're acclimated, and the way you handle stock on a hot, humid afternoon can cost…
Trichomoniasis is a venereal disease that quietly wrecks a calf crop. It spreads through breeding bulls, and by the time you see…
Grasshoppers are easiest and cheapest to kill in June while they're small, wingless, and bunched in the ditches and field edges where…
Turning hungry cows onto wet, fast-growing alfalfa or clover in June can froth them up fast. Here's how bloat kills, and the…
Clostridial disease drops the fastest-growing calves in the herd with almost no warning. Here's how blackleg works, why it hits when it…
Summer heat kills modified-live vaccine faster than most producers think. Here's how to keep the cold chain intact from the fridge to…
Water hemlock is the deadliest plant on Montana range, and it thrives in exactly the wet ground your cows drift to in…
Warm, wet ground and cut-up trails around water set cattle up for foot rot in June. Catching the swelling early and treating…
Bears and wolves follow their nose to easy meat. How you handle a dead cow on summer range in June sets up…
Thunderstorm season peaks just as cattle hit summer pasture. A little thought about where they shelter — and how you handle a…
Respiratory disease isn't just a fall backgrounding problem. Nursing calves on summer pasture get pneumonia too, and the ones that go down…
Tall larkspur is one of the deadliest plants Montana cattle walk into on early summer range, and the danger runs highest in…