Lonesome Lands

Jim and Shad break down the week in news, including the latest from the USDA, beef on dairy's carbon scam, and the south Texas Floods.  0:00 Intro, where to come see us.  1:21 Farm Security 4:04 Amnesty for farm workers. 5:39 Epstein list 7:23 USDA Under Secretary Steven Vaden sworn in.  8:35 Opening the Mexican border and screw worm update.  11:56 Amnesty for illegal farm workers 17:00 Beef on da...

Jim and Shad discuss the good and the bad for agriculture in Trumps, big ugly omnibus bill. Also, opening the Mexico border, inviting in the screwworm, an Anti-Trust hearing and more.  0:00 Intro 2:01 Big, Beautiful Bill 5:00 Attempted selling of public land. 10:00 Farm and Ranch tax policy in the Bill.  13:50 The much needed opposition from Trump supporters.  18:08 The climate agenda included in...

Jim and Shad are live on stage from the R-Calf USA convention in Deadwood South Dakota. They discuss a number of issues, the main one being how cattlemen and associations have partnered with people who blame them for destroying the climate.  0:00 Intro/ how we got here.  2:55 The organizations agriculture associations have partnered with that are funding the LA riots.  6:05 Brook Rollins/ New Worl...

Jim and Shad give an update on the Angus Associations complete disregard of their members and partnership with environmental nuts. Shad goes off on the sustainability agenda that was created to destroy production agriculture, and is embraced by the corporate ag associations. Also, Mexico's New World Screw worm campaign, LA riots, Chinese worm smugglers and the Lonesome History of Spainish Californ...

Jim and Shad break give a breakdown the week in news. The main focus of this episode being the petition that is shaking up the cattle industry. The petition that was started by ranchers that are Angus Association members was created to get the Angus Association to return the $4.85 million grant given to them by the Bezos Earth Fund to study methane genetics in cattle.  Other topics discussed: Elon...

Jim and Shad talk about a number of pressing topics in the agriculture industry that make them nostalgic for a time when leaders had courage and would stand up for what was right.  0:00 Updates on the Big Beautiful Bill and the JBS IPO.  4:47 R-Calf CEO Bill Bullard's interview on Fox News.  8:78 State of the cattle industry and where we go from here.  16:03 Shad's Memorial Day poem 19:43 The mess...

Jim and Shad take on the week in news including: the carbon pipeline in the big beautiful bill, the Maude podcast, Colorado, USDAs farmer first plan, the New World Screw Worm, and We Pointed Them North.  0:00 Big Beautiful BS Bill 13:07 Recapping the Maude podcast 23:22 Lands lost in depression to federal government 27:16 Colorado Wildlife and Biodiversity Act 30:15 Colorado's new environmental nu...

Jim sits down with South Dakota ranchers Charles and Heather Maude to hear their story of how the Forest Service indicted them for theft of government property for a fence that had been in the same spot for 70 years. They were charged seperately and could not talk to each other about the case. They expose all of the details that convinced them that the end goal was to destroy their family and thei...

Jim and Shad talk over the week in news, including JBS's planned IPO, New World Screw worm and the closing of the Mexican border to livestock, Colorado's proposed wildlife ecosystem conservation commision, and Shad tells ranching stories.  0:00 JBS corrections and more on the investment invasion of agriculture.  14:00 New world screw worm, closing the border, and record prices.  19:28 Colorado's p...

Jim and Shad pickup where they left off last week by breaking down the corruption that lead to the success of the worlds largest meat packing corporation, JBS. JBS IPO has recently been approved by the SEC and are on track to have shares available on the NYSE soon.  They also break down the connection between The Nature Conservancy and the Chinese Communist Party.  0:00 Intro, Maude case update. ...

Jim and Shad talk about the charges being dropped against the Maude family, how it came about and their press confrence in D.C.  Other topics discussed: Common Ground Cattle Summit, Angus Associations partnership with climate nut jobs, and the history of JBS corruption.  0:00 Maude family press conference.  22:22 Common Ground Summit 41:33 Finding truth in agriculture 45:50 Angus Associations part...

Jim and Shad are searching for truth in the agriculture industry. From the climate, the globalists agenda, the lobbyists,  and now the Canadian cattle feeding fraud. There is no shortage of scams in the agriculture industry. They break them all down, keep searching for the truth, and find it in their history.  0:00 Finding truth in Agriculture 7:05 Climate Smart Commodity program changes 16:25 WEF...

Jim and Shad start off by talking about Shad's trip to South Dakota and the visit to the Maude Ranch. They give an update on the case and the ranches being purchased in the neighborhood.  0:00 Intro 2:08 Maude case summary and Shad's trip to South Dakota. 10:00 Explaination of the Small Tracts Act and how it was created to deal specifically with these issues. 21:24 Forest Service inefficiencies an...

Jim and Shad explain how the USDA has funded corporations and organizations that are buying up American ranch and farm land.  0:00 The great American land grab 29:00 Getting wolves off of the endangered species list. 32:00 Dire wolves cloned 34:40 Shad's favorite movies 36:30 Texas cattle EID bill 42:12 Shad's trip to Craig County Oklahoma 45:24 Maude case update 52:00 Lonesome History- Jim reads...

Jim and Shad dedicate most of this episode to the arrest of Heather and Charles Maude of South Dakota (4:10). The Maudes are a young couple with two small children. They operate a ranch in South Dakota and have been harrassed and now arrested over a fence that has been in the same place since 1906. Many in the community believe this is an intimidation tactic, and land grab by the U.S. Forest Servi...

Jim and Shad continue to discuss the multiple attacks on Cattlemen and American's freedoms from corporations, lobbyists and from multiple states.  Topics discussed: Incremental loss of freedoms, Electronic ID ear tag mandate, Texas EID bill, Nebraska brand bill, Texas Mcool bill, Colorado gun ban, Trump's portrait, how lobbyist buy loyalty with awards, importance of independent state organizations...

Jim and Shad start off with the asinine idea coming from the Department of the Interior and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to build 7 million affordable homes on federal lands.  Other topics discussed: proclaiming National Ag Day, $10 billion of payments are on their way to farmers, the corner crossing ruling and the relationship between farmers and ranchers, and hunters, who lan...

Sara and Henry Hollenbeck have a lot going on. They operate the Hollenbeck Ranch outside of the town of Molt Montana where they raise sheep, goats, and cattle. They also have a direct to consumer meat company, High Five Meats. Their family owns and operates a meat processor in Forsyth Montana called Cowboy Meat Company. Henry and his father are local livestock order buyers with Arrow Livestock. Si...

Jim and Shad discuss the week in news and agriculture. They start off by breaking down Trump's attack on Thomas Massie, and some of the other troubles causing frustrations. They also talk about the recent USDA cuts to local food programs. They discuss the insurance companies and lobbyists that get to represent farmers and ranchers in Washington D.C.  Lonesome History- They go back to the Johnson C...

Jim and Shad start off by giving their reactions to the Trump speech and how the Democrats handled it. They talk over the tariffs and guess at their impacts. They then get into the recent Senate hearings and the agriculture groups that have testified. They discuss how these associations seem desperate to maintain the status quo while rural America continues to shrivel up and disappear. They then b...

Jim and Shad sit down to continue the conversations in agriculture as more information continues to come out. Jim starts off explaining the goal of keeping independent farmers and ranchers on the land. They then talk about the surprising salaries of the Livestock Marketing Association, a non-profit organization who appartently has one of the highest paid non-profit staffs in the country. They also...

Jim and Shad start out with an update on the exposure of Government payments to organizations like, $1.2 billion to National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, tens of millions to feed wild horses, $668,818 to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and on and on it goes. They also discuss the growing push to sell off federal lands and how that would work. They then finish up with a new history segm...

Jim and Shad are finally together at the headwaters of Bitter Creek in Archer County North Texas. They start in by going through some of the largest recipients of tax payer funds in agriculture. They also get into what else needs to be fixed like the Sustains Act that caused a lot of the corruption in Agriculture and the feral horse problem. Shad gets into some of the history of Archer County and...

Jim and Shad discuss how the USDA has removed refrences to climate change from their website and what that means for agriculture. They also talk about RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearing, the removal of dams in California, USAID paying farmers in Ukraine, the naked lady at the Grammys and much more. Support Lonesome Lands

Jim and Shad sit down to go over the week in news and agriculture. They discuss the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins confirmation hearing. They talk about the recent news involving electronic ID tags for cattle. Shad gives a rundown of all the threats to property rights happening now. They then get into which group is the biggest threat to the American cattleman.  Support Lonesome Lands