Lonesome Lands

Lonesome Lands

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Jim Mundorf talks about issues facing America's farmers and ranchers, breaks down the failures of traditional ag media, and talks with some of the most interesting people working in agriculture. Find more at LonesomeLands.com.

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Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Cattlemen Forced to Push Climate Agenda, and USDA issues - Lonesome Report - 8/12/25 13.08.2025

Jim and Shad continue the conversation on topics in the news and agriculture. This weeks topics: real climate science is back, how the Beef Checkoff forced cattle producers to finance the spreading of lies, getting rid of Diesel Exhaust Fluid, and much more.  0:00 Intro, Cash Carruth Horses 2:19 Jackass comments and cowboy horse training.  3:41 Real climate science is back.  6:05 How the Beef Chec...

Trump's Dismantling of the Climate Agenda - Lonesome Report - 8/5/25 06.08.2025

Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan break down the week in news and agriculture. This weeks topics include: Ending the Endangerment Finding of greeenhouse gases, Texas AWOL legislators, USDA removes soda from food stamp program, buying local food, and Farmers Market in DC. Bill Gates tuberculosis vaccine, and the impact of record cattle and beef prices.  0:00 Intro, Carruth Horse Sales, Shad's teaching...

More Land Grabs, and the End of Ranching in Colorado? - Lonesome Report - 7/30/25 30.07.2025

Jim Mundorf and Shad Sullivan discuss current topics in agriculture news.  Topics discussed: New Jersey's town is trying to take a farm, removing ranchers for wolves in Colorado, eat less meat campaign, and much more.  0:00 New Jersey Farmer Andy Henry's fight to save his farm.  5:10 Colorado nut suggests taking ranches for wolf habitat.  16:50 Denver's eat less meat campaign 29:09 Is Colorado los...

What Sustainability Really Means in the Cattle Business - Lonesome Report 7/23/25 24.07.2025

Jim and Shad talk about the week in news and agriculture. Including how the word sustainability has gained a whole new meaning.  0:00 Jim's speech recap and agricultures investment in the carbon market.  8:40 Shad's War on Beef presentation and trip to Colorado.  12:27 Beef Checkoff is coming for 4H-ers dollars in Kansas. 17:28 Breaking down the sustainabilty scam.  23:31 Common Ground Summit's co...

How Corporate Agriculture Has Invested in the Lie of the Carbon Market 22.07.2025

Jim Mundorf speaking at the South Dakota Stockgrowers Convention on July 15. He talks about what he has learned over the past couple of years. How corporate ag has gone along with the lie that agriculture is the largest source of greenhouse gases. How they see value in the lie and how they have invested in it in order to create a carbon market. Also, how they have partnered with the USDA to create...

Trumps Worst Hire at the USDA and the Climate Scam Continues - Lonesome Report - 7/14/25 14.07.2025

Jim and Shad breakdown the week in news and agriculture.  0:00 Recapping beef on dairy 12:45 Trumps administration's worst hire yet, Justin Ransom. 34:30 Young Cattlemens Conference corporate indoctrination tour.  42:11 Mexico border opening and closing to cattle imports. 46:52 America Unwon article on Henry Vogler and H2a worker issues in ag.  52:29 The legacy we leave. Shad's story of burying hi...

Is Beef on Dairy the American Ranchers Biggest Enemy? - Lonesome Report - 7/8/25 09.07.2025

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...

Big, Beautiful Mess of a Bill and Screw Worms - Lonesome Report - 7/1/25 02.07.2025

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...

Cattle Associations Partner Up With Their Enemies for Cash - Lonesome Report - 6/19/25 23.06.2025

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...

The Farm and Ranch Sustainability Scam - Lonesome Report - 6/11/25 11.06.2025

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...

Cattlemen Fight Back Against Bezos and the Angus Association - Lonesome Report - 6/4/25 04.06.2025

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...

Have the Cattlemen Lost Their Courage - Lonesome Report - 5/27/25 28.05.2025

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...

The Attack on Property Rights in Trump's Big Beautiful Bill - Lonesome Report - 5/21/25 21.05.2025

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...

The Maudes Story of Persecution and the Fight of Their Lives - Lonesome Lands Ep 19 19.05.2025

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...

Colorado Crazies Lay the Plans to Takeover Agriculture - Lonesome Report - 5/15/25 15.05.2025

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...

The Most Corrupt Corporation in America is Going Public - Lonesome Report - 5/6/25 07.05.2025

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. ...

Victory for the Maude Family Ranch and the Work Left To Do - Lonesome Report - 4/30/25 30.04.2025

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...

Breaking Down the Scams in Agriculture - Lonesome Report - 4/23/25 24.04.2025

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...

Farm Groups Unholy Alliance with Environmental Activists - Lonesome Report - 4/16/25 17.04.2025

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...

American Land Grab, How Taxpayers are Funding the Takeover of Rural America - Lonesome Report - 4/9/25 10.04.2025

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...

U.S. Forest Service Attack on the Maude Family Ranch - Lonesome Report - 4/3/25 03.04.2025

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...

Agriculture Corruption Continues, Where is DOGE? - Lonesome Report - 3/26/25 27.03.2025

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...

Destroying Ranches for Government Housing, the Worst Idea Ever - Lonesome Report - 3/20/25 20.03.2025

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...

Montana Ranching, Selling Meat, and Preserving the Future with the Hollenbecks Lonesome Lands Podcast Ep. 18 18.03.2025

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...

Trump and Rural America, Is the Honeymoon Over? - Lonesome Report - 3/13/25 13.03.2025

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...

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