Broken O Ranch
“Contiguous, cold, and quiet. A herd here doesn't phone home on its own.”
Optimized for sovereignty, survivability, and a new economics.
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.
~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.
~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.
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.
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.
- 01The Land Report · 2026-01 — Stan Kroenke, America's largest landowner
- 02Montana State University Extension (MT202103AG) — AUM lease rates — 2.2–3.3 ac/AUM native range
- 03USDA APHIS NAHMS · 2015 — Adult cattle annual death rate ~2%
- 04USDA NASS · 2011 — Cattle Death Loss — 4.3% of inventory; respiratory disease 28% of non-predator loss⚠ USDA's detailed Cattle Death Loss report has not been reissued since 2011; we do not imply newer national cause-tables exist.
- 05Translational Animal Science (Oxford) · 2025 — Randomized feedlot trial: automated early BRD detection cut untreated deaths ~75% and total fallouts ~27%, treating ~3.7 days earlier⚠ Several 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).
- 06CattleFax (via NCBA) · 2026-02 — 2026 full-year feeder average forecast ~$335/cwt (most conservative benchmark)