The Bair Ranch Foundation Seminar Series brings nationally recognized scientists and agricultural professionals to Montana State University for the benefit of students, faculty, and the public. The series aims to foster greater public engagement and outreach on innovative research, and highlight agricultural and natural resources issues.

Seminars include a research dialogue that provides MSU students and faculty meaningful interaction with nationally recognized agricultural professionals, educators and researchers.

Click here to view past seminars on YouTube.

Presentations are held from noon - 1 p.m. in Animal Bioscience Building, Room 134 and via WebEx at https://montana.webex.com/montana/j.php?MTID=m376a8346523bc1b3327850c47b5690ce 

 

2025 Fall Seminar Series

Line-up to be announced in August 2025!

2025 Spring Seminar Series

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Jan. 30 | Nicole Karwowski

Montana State University

Seminar: Agriculture, Conservation, and Water Quality

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March 27 | Roel Lopez

Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute

Seminar: Trends and opportunities in private land stewardship

2024 Fall Seminar Series

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Sept. 12 | John Holman 

Kansas State University

Seminar: Integration of Livestock and Annual Forage Production Systems

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Oct. 10 | Jameson Brennan

South Dakota State University

Seminar: Precision technologies on extensive beef production systems

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Oct. 24 | Mark Kossler 

Turner Ranches (former)

Seminar: Managing Large Ranches

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Nov. 7 | Phil Bass

University of Idaho

Seminar: Discovering Value in Beef

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Nov. 21 | Benjamin Turner

King Ranch Institute (TAMUK)

Seminar: Making Thinking Explicit: A Systems Approach for Natural Resource Management

2024 Spring Seminar Series

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Jan. 25 | Travis Mulliniks

Glenn and Mildred Harvey Professor of Beef Cattle Management at Oregon State University

Seminar: Nutritional and management strategies to increase cow-calf production efficiency

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Feb. 8 | Hannah Speer

Assistant Professor of Animal Science at Northern Agricultural Research Center

Seminar: Consequences of cow-calf production with limited perennial forage grazing

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Feb. 22 | Beau Larkin

North Manager and Forest Ecology at MPG Ranch

Seminar: MPG Ranch: Restoration, Research and Conservation

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March 7 | Connie Larson 

Associate Director of Global Technical Service at ZINPRO

Seminar: Improving Animal Wellbeing and Performance Through Trace Mineral Technology

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March 28 | David Augustine

Research Ecologist at USDA ARS

Seminar: TBA

2023 Fall Seminar Series

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Sept. 28 | James Reecy

Vice President for Research at Iowa State University

Seminar: International Collaboration and Development: Benefits Abound

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Oct. 19 | Decky Spiller

Kiowa Creek Division Manager at Silver Spur Operating Co.

Seminar: A modern integrated beef operation built on traditional stockmanship and cutting-edge technology 

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Oct. 19 | Misti Spiller

Cattle Registrations at Silver Spur Operating Co. 

Seminar: A modern integrated beef operation built on traditional stockmanship and cutting-edge technology

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Nov. 2 | Rebecca Poole

Assistant Professor of Animal Science at Texas A&M University

Seminar:Characterization of the microbiome and immune responses in the reproductive tract

2023 Spring Seminar Series

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Jan. 26 | Sarah Moorey

University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Seminar: The Preovulatory Follicle: A master regulator of fertility in cattle

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Feb. 9 | Brian Nielsen

Michigan State University

Seminar: Three Decades of Equine Bone Research

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Feb. 23 | Ann Staiger

Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Seminar: Precision phenotyping in livestock for sustainable production

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March 9 | Alexis Bonogofsky

WWF Ranching Initiative

Seminar: Sustainable Ranching in the Northern Great Plains: Helping grasslands and communities thrive

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March 9 | Patrick Lendrum

WWF Ranching Initiative

Seminar: Sustainable Ranching in the Northern Great Plains: Helping grasslands and communities thrive

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March 30 | Matt Reeves

US Forest Service

Seminar: A Forest Service Approach to Leveraging Technology to Aid Public Land Administration

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April 13 | Juan Loor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Seminar: Heat stress in cattle: The gut and beyond

 

View previous Bair Ranch Foundation seminar speakers here.