Heat stress builds through the afternoon and only lets go overnight. When a run of hot days doesn't cool down after dark,…
Spread by ticks, biting flies, and dirty needles, anaplasmosis can smolder through a herd all summer before you notice the anemia. Here's…
Lush alfalfa and clover regrowth can blow a cow up in an hour. Here's how frothy bloat sets up on June pasture…
Summer grass looks like it has everything a cow needs, but the minerals that drive breeding and calf health run short right…
Castrating and dehorning older calves in hot, fly-heavy weather invites infection and fly strike. A few changes to timing and technique keep…
Standing water around tanks and gates sets cattle up for foot rot in early summer. Here's how to spot it early, treat…
Tall larkspur is one of the deadliest plants on Montana mountain range, and the danger climbs right when cattle move to summer…
A breeding soundness exam gets your bulls to the pasture gate, but it doesn't keep them working. Riding through the bulls during…
Horn flies live on the animal and feed on blood dozens of times a day. Left alone through a Montana summer, they…
Mid-June is when pinkeye starts showing up in Montana calves — a weepy eye, a squint, then a white spot in the…
Low blood magnesium hits older cows nursing calves hardest, right when the grass looks its best. Here's how to spot it early…
Bovine trichomoniasis spreads at breeding and shows up as open cows and a strung-out calf crop next spring. A little planning before…
Cattle carry heat load for hours after the sun climbs, and the worst time to gather is the middle of a still,…
Frothy bloat hits cattle hard when they hit legume-heavy pasture in early summer, and a cow can go from grazing to dead…
Anaplasmosis rides in on ticks, biting flies, and dirty needles, then hides for weeks before it drops your mature cows. June is…
Foot rot moves fast on soft June ground, and the cow that was sound at turnout can be three-legged lame by the…
Summer grass looks like it has everything a cow needs, but Montana range runs short on the minerals that drive conception and…
Two-year-olds nursing their first calf carry the heaviest load in the herd, and they're the cows most likely to be open at…
Pinkeye shows up on Montana grass by midsummer, driven by face flies, dust, and cheatgrass awns. Here's how to knock down the…
Clostridial diseases like blackleg live in the soil and take the fastest-growing calves on summer pasture with no warning. A cheap two-shot…
Respiratory disease isn't just a feedlot problem. Nursing calves on summer range get pneumonia too, and the ones that survive it come…
A breeding season with no end date scatters your calves across four months and quietly costs you money at every marketing. Setting…
Montana cattle handle dry heat well until a humid stretch and warm nights stack up. Here's how heat load builds, what it…
Anaplasmosis quietly builds in a Montana herd through the vector season, and the first sign is often a good, aged cow off…
Wet ground around gates, water and salt sets cattle up for foot rot in early summer. Catch the limp early, because a…