MSU Animal & Range Sciences

10/13/2026

Registration is open for the 2026 Cattle Academy set for Nov. 18-19, in Miles City!

This year's speaker line-up features experts in virtual fencing, nitrates, precision agriculture, economics, parasites and more! Shaye Wanner, host of the popular Cattle Conversations podcast, will provide the keynote address, "Build the Ranch Your Way," over dinner. Register at: https://ecommerce.montana.edu/animal_range_beef/

10/12/2026

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Noah Davis, principal investigator of the project, "Adaptive Grazing for Resilient Working Lands: Managing Livestock Production, Vegetation, and Soil Health in Montana," that was recently awarded $1.5 million from the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation.

Co-principal investigators are Dan Atwater and Georgia Harrison, both in the Department of Animal and Range Sciences, and Sophie von Fromm in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences.

Read about the project here: https://www.montana.edu/news/25622

10/09/2026

Steer-a-Year at MSU is still seeking donations of calves for its program! Take a look at (or listen to) this Western Ag Reporter story about the Steer-A-Year program and how it helps our students gain valuable hands-on experience in cattle production. https://www.westernagreporter.com/articles/steer-a-year-class-provides-hands-on-education/
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The only news a busy rancher has time to read.

10/05/2026

THURSDAY: Join us from noon - 1 p.m. as we welcome Gleise Medeiros da Silva, assistant professor and BCRC-Hays Chair in Beef Production Systems at the University of Alberta, as our third speaker in the Fall '26 Bair Ranch Foundation Seminar Series.

Dr. Silva will present, “Strategies to mitigate stress in beef cattle,” in ABB 138 and via Webex at https://montana.webex.com/montana/j.php?MTID=m06c29e2ec6034dce4e57d3ec17460939

09/28/2026

The MSU Department of Animal and Range Sciences is seeking a Sheep Foreman!

This employee will work closely with the Red Bluff Ranch Manager and Livestock operations management in carrying out day-to-day agricultural operations of approximately 12,000 acres of agricultural land, facilities, and livestock (cattle, sheep, and horses) used in the research and educational activities conducted at the Red Bluff Research Facility, BART Farm and Fort Ellis. The successful candidate will have a strong desire to develop their skills in sheep production management.

Screening of applicants begins Thursday, Oct. 8. Learn more and apply at https://jobs.montana.edu/postings/53076 . Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans / Disabled.

09/24/2026

Lance McNew, professor of wildlife habitat ecology, discusses how science informs wildlife management and how the way we fund that science can shape the questions researchers are able to answer on the Aug. 26, episode of the Project Upland Podcast. Listen in at

How we fund science shapes which questions researchers are able to answer. Upland hunters have...

09/05/2026

Our offices will be closed Monday, Sept. 8, in observance of Labor Day. We will reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9.

09/04/2026

Join us Thursday, Sept. 10, for the first installment of the Fall 2026 Bair Ranch Foundation Seminar Series! MSU Mass Spectrometry Director Don Smith and MSU Mass Spectrometry Facility Manager Brian Bothner, will present, "New instrumentation, capabilities and current research projects," from noon - 1 p.m. in ABB 134 and via WebEx at https://montana.webex.com/montana/j.php?MTID=m06c29e2ec6034dce4e57d3ec17460939

08/26/2026

You are never too old for a first-day-of-school photo! Here are a few of the ones we took. Tag so we can see yours!

08/26/2026

Join us tomorrow from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at the Bozeman Agricultural Research and Teaching Farm to meet some of our faculty and students and learn about the research in our department! Dinner will be provided!

The farm is located at 2730 West Garfield (west of the MSU main campus off 19th Ave).