A producer makes an initial call to their veterinarian, concerned about a sudden and severe case of neonatal calf scours in their herd of calving beef cows. This is a call that veterinarians dread receiving and cow-calf producers throughout the country make far too often.

There has been a lot of discussion about late-term death loss in finishing cattle in recent years. There are obvious economic consequences of losing an animal that has been on feed for a long period of time, and those costs increase as feeder prices and feed costs increase.