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**Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Lab Centennial Celebration** On May 30-31, 2024, USDA-ARS and Montana State University will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Lab. To attend, please RSVP to heather.brean@usda.gov or call 406-874-8219.
 Welcome to Fort Keogh, a 55,000 acre USDA- Agricultural Research Service rangeland beef cattle research facility operated in cooperation with the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station. Click on the picture for an Introduction to Fort Keogh.
 Beef cattle research at Fort Keogh includes reproduction, growth, nutrition, breeding, and genomics. Click on the picture for more information on our animal research programs.
 Fort Keogh has a vast historical aspect as it was once a military fort and a remount station. Click on the picture to investigate the history of the station.
 The people at Fort Keogh are involved with many things. Click on the picture to find out what they have been up to and find upcoming tours and events.
 Range Research at Fort Keogh includes fire, drought, weed, nutrition, and soil. Click on the picture for more information on our range research programs.
 The annual**Hoofin' It For Hunger** run at Fort Keogh includes a 1/2 marathon, 10 K, 5 K, and 1/2 mile fun run raising funds/food for the foodbank via the Feds Feed Families.


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                            More... Low weed and cool-season grass abundances likely necessary for warm-season grass, forb, and shrub establishment Prescribed fire and exotic plant responses in phreatophytic Sarcobatus vermiculatus rangelands with contrasting degradation ¿ Improving forage nutritive value and livestock performance with spatially-patchy prescribed fire in grazed rangeland


/ARSUserFiles/30300500/images/quickLinks/intro.png  Introduction to Fort Keogh
Fort Keogh History
/ARSUserFiles/30300500/images/quickLinks/Animal.png Beef Cattle Research
/ARSUserFiles/30300500/images/quickLinks/Rangeland.png Range & Nutrition Research
/ARSUserFiles/30300500/images/quickLinks/nEWS.png  Fort Keogh Researcher
/ARSUserFiles/30300500/images/quickLinks/eVENTS.png Fort Keogh Events
/ARSUserFiles/30300500/images/quickLinks/journals.jpgFort Keogh Publications by Discipline - 1934 to present


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