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We may not get to go out on the town and do fancy things for holidays, especially when they fall right during calving season, but it doesn’t mean that we can’t have a little fun here on the ranch! I am sure today will be record consumption day for cornbeef and cabbage, but I have another festive and fizzy recipe to share to chase down that favorite Irish meal!

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I could go on and on about the gory aftermath of the Bomb Cyclone and the destruction, death, and weakness that it left. I can paint pictures with my words but unless you have lived it, you can only know what was felt.

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As we walk this life in agriculture, the story holds true, “no 2 years are ever the same.” Right now, most of the western USA is gripped in a drought, but 3 years ago, on this very week, much of the Midwest was drowning, literally.

Host Monte James interviews VP Frank Tomac of Independent Beef Association of North Dakota on today's Hot Barn Report.

As we walk this life in agriculture, the story holds true, “no 2 years are ever the same.” Right now, most of the western USA is gripped in a drought, but 3 years ago, on this very week, much of the Midwest was drowning, literally.

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Where are my pasta, bagel, and bread lovers? Listen up because today is all about the goddess of grain world, wheat!

If you enjoy brisk evenings under the stars with your spouse, questioning every decision you have ever made in your life, while pushing your physical being past the point of exhaustion and dragging your kids through this experience with you, then I highly recommend calving heifers and kidding goats at the same time.

Host Monte James interviews Sarah Metzler Director of Organizational Communications for the Cattlemen's Beef Board today's Hot Barn Report.

It is shredded beef meal idea day here on Ranch Raised! As I said yesterday, I consider shredded roast beef a blank canvas and I am the Picasso.

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There are so many different types of home cooks. I have always aspired to be one of those batch, freezer meal making mommas that makes a months' worth of meals on a Sunday afternoon. But the truth is, I am so far from it.

You don’t need me to tell you that there is a lot going on in the world. And to be completely honest I probably don’t know the half of it. We do not have cable TV.

It is finally here and I am so excited that you are here to celebrate with me! Today is a day that I could have not seen coming when I started this project. I had no stars in my eyes. I had no big picture goals. But here we are, our 100th episode of Ranch Raised!

Oil is up. Corn is up. Groceries are up. Everything is up. But, cattle are down. When crude oil goes up, so does diesel and gas. The output product follows the input product. So, if the cattle market functioned competitively like the gas market, then we would fully expect cattle prices to increase so the supply chain could recover the added cost of corn and inputs.

Have you noticed the escalating cost to fill your car up with gas? I did. It’s close to $100. Of course, in Europe the bill would be twice that much. Now we have Congress pushing new legislation that would suspend the federal gasoline tax of $.184 cents per gallon.

Anyone can ask the question, “what is your favorite cut of beef to eat?” But I have never been asked the question, “what is your favorite cut of beef to cook?” And honestly, I have two different answers to those questions. But, today, I’m going against “the grain” ....see what I did there....and I am going to answer the latter.

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Today is all about the “where”, WHERE is my favorite place?!?! Some people may roll their eyes and think this will sound so cliché. But, like everything I share with you on Ranch Raised, I feel this with all my heart, with every fiber of my being.

I think what my neighbors and I do is a noble profession. We care deeply about the land. Most of the time our livestock’s wellbeing comes before our own. We see value and purpose to all living creatures. And at the heart of it all, we feed people. We grow food to feed our neighbors, our country, and even the world.

THEE Hot Barn Report! Heard ONLY on American radio stations across the nation and online at hotbarnreport.com!

THEE Hot Barn Report! Heard ONLY on American radio stations across the nation and online at hotbarnreport.com!

Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 3 daughters near Broken Bow, NE. She grew up in western NE, with roots also in southwest SD. The cattle industry and raising kids is her passion.