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Cascade County, Montana

Broken O Ranch

Contiguous, cold, and quiet. A herd here doesn't phone home on its own.

Deeded
124,000
Total
124,000
Herd
~3,500 est.
Acquired
2012
The Analysis · scouting readout

Optimized for sovereignty, survivability, and a new economics.

Sovereignty
5already maxed

100% deeded — 124,000 of 124,000 acres owned outright.src

You own the dirt. CacheCow makes the herd on it just as much yours — every pattern recorded, nothing dependent on a person who might leave.

Survivability
45 with CacheCow

~30 acres to feed one cow (solid stocking rate). The sparser the range, the thinner the margin when an animal goes quiet.src

Early detection turns the harshest survivability number around: respiratory trouble caught days sooner is the difference between a sick cow and a dead one, exactly where the country gives you no second chances.

Economics
23 with CacheCow

~3,500 head sets the size of the preventable-loss pool.src

Divide the losses, multiply the survivors: every animal that doesn't die to a disease we flagged early is value that compounds back into the operation.

base CacheCow lift
The Division & Multiplication  ·  what we'd save you here

Conservatively, counting only the cattle respiratory disease would otherwise kill, caught early enough to save. It is the floor, not the ceiling: treatment cost, shrink, and lost weight are real too, and left out on purpose.

3,500
head (est. from acreage)src
×
2%
annual death losssrc
×
28%
is respiratorysrc⚠
×
27%
caught earlysrc⚠
=
5.3
head saved / yr
×
$2,600
per headsrc
Conservative floor ☞
$13,759 / year
Herd is an estimate from grazable acreage at the Montana stocking rate — labeled est., never presented as an actual count. The early-detection figure comes from a feedlot trial; range cow-calf dynamics differ, so we use the conservative end.
What we'd do here

Contiguous, cold, and quiet, one of the largest in the Rocky Mountain West. A herd here doesn't phone home on its own. We'd give it a voice for the nights that drop below zero.

On the figures · confidence High. LR 124,000; older AP 123,000. One of the largest in the Rocky Mountain West.
Sources  ·  nothing here is unsourced
  1. 01The Land Report · 2026-01Stan Kroenke, America's largest landowner
  2. 02Montana State University Extension (MT202103AG)AUM lease rates — 2.2–3.3 ac/AUM native range
  3. 03USDA APHIS NAHMS · 2015Adult cattle annual death rate ~2%
  4. 04USDA NASS · 2011Cattle Death Loss — 4.3% of inventory; respiratory disease 28% of non-predator lossUSDA's detailed Cattle Death Loss report has not been reissued since 2011; we do not imply newer national cause-tables exist.
  5. 05Translational Animal Science (Oxford) · 2025Randomized feedlot trial: automated early BRD detection cut untreated deaths ~75% and total fallouts ~27%, treating ~3.7 days earlierSeveral authors are employed by Merck Animal Health, which makes the tested device. We cite the statistically-significant mortality/fallout figures, not the marginal per-head economic figure (P=0.06).
  6. 06CattleFax (via NCBA) · 2026-022026 full-year feeder average forecast ~$335/cwt (most conservative benchmark)
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