A blood parasite spread by ticks and biting flies hits your older cows hardest, and by the time one lags behind the…
A two-year-old is still growing while she raises her first calf, and she can't win a shoving match at the feed ground.…
Setting a defined breeding season and pulling the bull on a schedule tightens your calving window and tells you months ahead which…
Spread by ticks, biting flies, and dirty needles, anaplasmosis can smolder through a herd all summer before you notice the anemia. Here's…
A breeding soundness exam gets your bulls to the pasture gate, but it doesn't keep them working. Riding through the bulls during…
Pneumonia isn't just a fall weaning problem. It hits unweaned calves on summer pasture, and the ones you notice are usually the…
Foot rot moves fast on soft June ground, and the cow that was sound at turnout can be three-legged lame by the…
Vaccine you paid good money for quits working long before the label date if it rides on the dash or sits mixed…
Turning bulls out isn't the end of breeding season—it's the start of the part where a lame or wrecked bull can cost…
Clostridial diseases like blackleg live in the soil and take the fastest-growing calves on summer pasture with no warning. A cheap two-shot…
The cows you already know are leaving—bad udders, bad feet, wrecked mouths—don't need to eat your grass until October. Sorting culls in…
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…
Legume-heavy pasture and fast-growing irrigated grass can set cattle up for frothy bloat in June. Here's how it kills so quickly and…
Anaplasmosis quietly builds in a Montana herd through the vector season, and the first sign is often a good, aged cow off…
Deciding when and what to sell before summer turns dry keeps you in control of the market instead of the other way…
Replacement heifers set the tone for your whole calving season. Get them to breeding weight, turn the bull in ahead of the…
You turned the bulls out and the branding's done, but a bull that goes lame or gets whipped in the first three…
Modified-live vaccines quit working long before you'd guess, and heat, sunlight, and dirty needles undo the whole day's work at the chute.…
A cow that comes in three-legged lame with a swollen foot after a wet June has foot rot until proven otherwise. Catch…
The cows that won't pay their way through winter show it in June—bad bags, cancer eye, broken mouths, feet gone wrong. Mark…
The biting flies and ticks working your cows right now spread a blood disease that quietly builds all summer and drops mature…
A bull that passed his breeding test in May can still come up lame, sore-footed, or plain lazy by July. Riding through…
First-calf heifers have to grow, milk, and rebreed all at once, and they lose that fight quietly. Here's how to keep your…
Growth implants are one of the lowest-cost tools in the calf business, but plenty of Montana producers skip them or place them…