June and July thunderstorms drop cattle in bunches, often under the one shade tree in the pasture or along a wire fence.…
Getting irrigation water where it does the most good in June sets up your hay crop and your fall regrowth. Here's how…
Lush alfalfa and clover regrowth can blow a cow up in an hour. Here's how frothy bloat sets up on June pasture…
Turning pairs out on summer grass only works if the fence holds. A slow walk of the wire in June saves you…
Early summer is when cool-season grasses put on most of their growth. Push cattle across it too hard now and you're borrowing…
Those silvery seedheads coming on in the low ground and the field edges aren't harmless. Foxtail barley awns work into gums, cheeks…
Cool-season grass on Montana range does most of its growing in a short window, and cattle left to graze it flat in…
By mid-June the horn fly numbers climb fast on summer pasture. Here's how to knock them back before they cost you pounds…
Noxious weeds hit their most vulnerable window in June and early July. Hit spurge and knapweed at flowering with the right chemical…
Turning cattle onto wet, fast-growing alfalfa or clover in June can froth up a rumen and kill a good cow in an…
Mid-June is prime time to hit Montana's worst pasture weeds while the chemical still moves into the roots. Wait until seed set…
Grasshoppers do the most damage as small nymphs in early summer. Counting them now and hitting the hatch beds early is cheaper…
Cool-season grass on Montana range hits its hardest growth in June, and how you move cattle through it now sets up the…