Aug 21, 2026 · 22 min · 9 segments
Terrill Ostrom runs Lazy TM Livestock in Red Lodge, Montana and brokers cattle nationwide through Crossroads Cattle Company, moving upwards of 240,000 head a year. This week, Terrill sits down with…
Trevor GreenfieldHostTerrell OstromGuestWe're known for the tub that pays for itself and feed and forage savings, hay and forage savings alone.
What we're launching in September is the Turbo Boost program, which is a calf starter program just for the first 60 days.
But, Terrell, talk to me a little bit about what are the needs or what are the risks or what are the headaches and frustrations of dealing with these calves, whether they unweaned or weaned and shipping and commingling and sale barns.
Obviously, you're doing stuff that takes a shortcut around that and makes it easier for folks.
Walk us through how people are feeling and what the headaches and frustrations in that space.
Through the brokerage, we see cattle coming from all different kinds of backgrounds.
And we see anything from a put-together sale barn type animal to a really country fresh calf with... two rounds of modified live, a round at branding, which is traditional, and then another round two to three weeks prior to weaning.
So we see cattle at all different spectrums and all different levels of stress put on those calves.
One of the goals of everybody that touches one of those balling calves is is least stress, getting them started and getting them hydrated and getting them coming to the bunk.
And so I think anything that we can do to supplement that and enhance that experience, anything that we can do to make that transition easier, less stressful, I think would be a benefit.
And so if we have less stress, what is the product of that? What's the end game for reducing that stress and that whole transition?
The end game is to eliminate the number of treats that you have and definitely then reduce You know, we know that we're not going to be 100%.
There's going to be that percentage of cattle that you're going to have to treat.
But if we can lower that number of treats and if we can, and once again, if we have that immune system fine-tuned prior to creating the stress on that animal, then I think that we'll have much better chance of success.
And we still might have that percentage that we have to doctor, but we might eliminate those retreats.
And I think that we'll have a better chance of whatever we choose as our method of treatment, we'll have a better chance of that working.
We're known for the tub that pays for itself and feed and forage savings, hay and forage savings alone.
What we're launching in September is the Turbo Boost program, which is a calf starter program just for the first 60 days.
But, Terrell, talk to me a little bit about what are the needs or what are the risks or what are the headaches and frustrations of dealing with these calves, whether they unweaned or weaned and shipping and commingling and sale barns.
Obviously, you're doing stuff that takes a shortcut around that and makes it easier for folks.
Walk us through how people are feeling and what the headaches and frustrations in that space.
Through the brokerage, we see cattle coming from all different kinds of backgrounds.
And we see anything from a put-together sale barn type animal to a really country fresh calf with... two rounds of modified live, a round at branding, which is traditional, and then another round two to three weeks prior to weaning.
So we see cattle at all different spectrums and all different levels of stress put on those calves.
One of the goals of everybody that touches one of those balling calves is is least stress, getting them started and getting them hydrated and getting them coming to the bunk.
And so I think anything that we can do to supplement that and enhance that experience, anything that we can do to make that transition easier, less stressful, I think would be a benefit.
And so if we have less stress, what is the product of that? What's the end game for reducing that stress and that whole transition?
The end game is to eliminate the number of treats that you have and definitely then reduce You know, we know that we're not going to be 100%.
There's going to be that percentage of cattle that you're going to have to treat.
But if we can lower that number of treats and if we can, and once again, if we have that immune system fine-tuned prior to creating the stress on that animal, then I think that we'll have much better chance of success.
And we still might have that percentage that we have to doctor, but we might eliminate those retreats.
And I think that we'll have a better chance of whatever we choose as our method of treatment, we'll have a better chance of that working.
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