Since we’ve been managing cattle for meat and profitability, the industry constantly searches for new and different tools that can help us accomplish three primary objectives – improve reproduction, health and growth – the primary drivers of improved profitability.

Although feedlot cattle of any age are potentially at risk, H. somni is more common in recently weaned and/or shipped cattle.

Aided and abetted by the drought, feedlots put together another month of large placements in July.