Bovine respiratory disease is costly
Jane Fyksen
Minnesota Farm Guide
No matter what beef producers call it — Bovine respiratory disease, BRD, pneumonia or shipping fever, it’s a disease complex that’s costly and all too common to farmers who are feeding cattle. Earlier this month at a University of Wisconsin-Extension Cattle Feeder Clinic in Mondovi, UW-River Falls Veterinarian Larry Baumann looked at what he called the No. 1 health concern of feeder cattle.