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Your Source For The Latest RODEO NEWS Following Heartland PRCA Athletes With Host Monte James. Fast paced, professionally produced, weekly radio show that follows Midwestern PRCA Rodeo Athletes throughout the year & all the way to the National Finals Rodeo!

The Hot Barn Report is a fast paced and entertaining daily program covering the latest news and trends in the cattle industry, hosted by Monte James, a veteran rodeo announcer, radio host and industry expert! The Hot Barn Report features interviews with industry leaders, market analysts, producers and ranchers and features True Price Discovery from salebarns in Great Northern Beef Belt and across...

Let’s all take a minute to give appreciation for our hometown radio stations like the one you listening to right now, and our newspapers!

The Hot Barn Report is a fast paced and entertaining daily program covering the latest news and trends in the cattle industry, hosted by Monte James, a veteran rodeo announcer, radio host and industry expert! The Hot Barn Report features interviews with industry leaders, market analysts, producers and ranchers and features True Price Discovery from salebarns in Great Northern Beef Belt and across...

Recently I have been hearing a lot of people say, “this isn’t about winning.” I would love to tell you that’s the truth. But it isn’t.   Now it’s not about the banners, the buckles, the money.

The Hot Barn Report is a fast paced and entertaining daily program covering the latest news and trends in the cattle industry, hosted by Monte James, a veteran rodeo announcer, radio host and industry expert! The Hot Barn Report features interviews with industry leaders, market analysts, producers and ranchers and features True Price Discovery from salebarns in Great Northern Beef Belt and across...

Survey says that vanilla is the most popular flavor of ice cream followed by chocolate, but I want to hear from you! What do you want a scoop up Rocky Road? Cherry Nut? Strawberry? Tell me your favorite flavor of ice cream on the Ranch Raised FB page! 

Your Source For The Latest RODEO NEWS Following Heartland PRCA Athletes With Host Monte James. Fast paced, professionally produced, weekly radio show that follows Midwestern PRCA Rodeo Athletes throughout the year & all the way to the National Finals Rodeo!

The Hot Barn Report is a fast paced and entertaining daily program covering the latest news and trends in the cattle industry, hosted by Monte James, a veteran rodeo announcer, radio host and industry expert! The Hot Barn Report features interviews with industry leaders, market analysts, producers and ranchers and features True Price Discovery from salebarns in Great Northern Beef Belt and across...

“There is a growing concern about the rising U.S.  agricultural trade deficit.”  In the fiscal year 2023 the US experienced a significant trade deficit of $16.7 billion and now in 2024, we are on track to double that!

Don’t forget to get out and enjoy your local county fair!   We are still cheering for all of those entering their local county fairs! Have a blast and hold on to the memories you are making. 

My point is, there are so many opportunities to make sure kids aren’t laying on the couch all summer. There is plenty of summer left to make memories and write a chapter in your child’s life book.

Today we salute the volunteers who pour into their local companion animal programs and the youth who have taken their 4 legged friends into their hearts and created loyal bonds that some will never know!  

The Hot Barn Report is a fast paced and entertaining daily program covering the latest news and trends in the cattle industry, hosted by Monte James, a veteran rodeo announcer, radio host and industry expert! The Hot Barn Report features interviews with industry leaders, market analysts, producers and ranchers and features True Price Discovery from salebarns in Great Northern Beef Belt and across...

Your Source For The Latest RODEO NEWS Following Heartland PRCA Athletes With Host Monte James. Fast paced, professionally produced, weekly radio show that follows Midwestern PRCA Rodeo Athletes throughout the year & all the way to the National Finals Rodeo!

The Hot Barn Report is a fast paced and entertaining daily program covering the latest news and trends in the cattle industry, hosted by Monte James, a veteran rodeo announcer, radio host and industry expert! The Hot Barn Report features interviews with industry leaders, market analysts, producers and ranchers and features True Price Discovery from salebarns in Great Northern Beef Belt and across...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It’s county fair season! What else could you have possibly thought I was talking about.

I have the rest of my life to find a purpose for the other 10,639 buttons of hers that I am happily holding on to! 

Summer is National Championship Season, at least it is if your kids are involved in the greatest sports on dirt.

Your Source For The Latest RODEO NEWS Following Heartland PRCA Athletes With Host Monte James. Fast paced, professionally produced, weekly radio show that follows Midwestern PRCA Rodeo Athletes throughout the year & all the way to the National Finals Rodeo!

Until one Monday, in mid-March, 1999, the last 600 head of cattle would sell through the ring.  The last gavel fell that day, ending an era that put Omaha on the map as a hub of agriculture in the United States of America.  

For more than a decade Chicago had been the center of meat production in the northern great plains.   In 1955, Omaha's livestock market became the largest in the world, moving 6.7 million head that year and that would not even be the PEAK of sales receipts.  A few years later at the end of World War 2, they would move 7.7 million head.  

A few years ago, my daughter did her history project on the Omaha Stockyards. So I give her credit for these facts Im going to share this week! 

The Hot Barn Report is a fast paced and entertaining daily program covering the latest news and trends in the cattle industry, hosted by Monte James, a veteran rodeo announcer, radio host and industry expert! The Hot Barn Report features interviews with industry leaders, market analysts, producers and ranchers and features True Price Discovery from salebarns in Great Northern Beef Belt and across...

This week I am off to Grand Island, NE to watch my girls compete in the Daddy of Them All and I am not talking about Cheyenne Frontier Days. That is the theme for the 25th Anniversary of the National Junior Hereford Expo and what a treat that we could host this historical event in my home state!