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Andy Warhol once said, “The idea is not to live forever, but to create something that will.” Welcome to this REALLY special edition of Hot Barn Report.

Growing up on a farm and ranch has many benefits for children, but farms can also be dangerous.

We face some serious global challenges. The human population has doubled in the last 50 years to 8 billion. We will need productive farmland to increase food production and forest land to get the wood to build houses. Demand for land has pushed land prices to a record level.

If you’re a farmer, rancher, or farmworker, you already know that your work can expose you to a variety of hazards. Whether these are physical, mental, environmental, or social, they are all intertwined.

America’s Hot Barn Report hosted by NAFB Award Winning Monte James brings the latest in cattle market news, interviews with industry leaders and price discovery from prolific sale barns across the USA!

America’s Hot Barn Report hosted by NAFB Award Winning Monte James brings the latest in cattle market news, interviews with industry leaders and price discovery from prolific sale barns across the USA!

You’ve heard me say it before and you will hear me say it again, slow down, be alert and stay safe on our rural roads!

America’s Hot Barn Report hosted by NAFB Award Winning Monte James brings the latest in cattle market news, interviews with industry leaders and price discovery from prolific sale barns across the USA!

Agriculture is known as one of the most dangerous industries in America. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, in 2019 the agriculture industry had a fatality rate of 23.1 deaths per 100,000 workers.

America's Hot Barn Report hosted by NAFB Award Winning Monte James brings the latest in cattle market news, interviews with industry leaders and price discovery from prolific sale barns across the USA!

September is national honey month! I am truly fascinated by this golden nectar and how it is produced. Getting bees is a life goal of mine, but we won’t tell my husband.

With all the concern about climate change, countries around the world are looking for ways to reduce carbon emissions. We have been told for years that ethanol blended fuel will burn cleaner and reduce green house gas emissions. Here is what Geoff Cooper, President of the Renewable Fuels Association had to say: “Ethanol offers a significant and immediate carbon savings.”

America’s Hot Barn Report hosted by NAFB Award Winning Monte James brings the latest in cattle market news, interviews with industry leaders and price discovery from prolific sale barns across the USA!

It is National Double Cheeseburger Day! Is there anything more American than not one but two all beef patties grilled to perfection, piled with your favorite toppings, hugged in a pillowy bun? The idea is all-American, but the beef you are eating and buying, ummm, that may not be American.

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!

Let’s talk creepy crawlies today on Ranch Raised!

America’s Hot Barn Report hosted by NAFB Award Winning Monte James brings the latest in cattle market news, interviews with industry leaders and price discovery from prolific sale barns across the USA!

When I made my Ranch Raised pregnancy announcement a few weeks back, I referenced that I had moved back in to the fall calving herd. If you remember back to this summer, I shared that we had to make the hard decision, because of the drought, to sell our fall calving herd. So our usual days of finding fall born baby calves in the tall grass is just a memory this year.

I love weekends like the one we just had here at the Jones Ranch! The weather was mild and beautiful. We didn’t have much going on away from the ranch, so I was able to focus on what needed done in my kitchen and garden. One of my favorite things about fall is the harvesting of the bounty!

Let me open by reading a statement from Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA). “Without a robust rural America, people in the city are going to wake up hungry, and the more I learn about cotton, they’re going to wake up naked too.” I like that quote. We don’t want the consuming public to forget the essential value of the farmers, ranchers, and whole ag industry.

I love supporting American agriculture and that is just what Fun, Fact Friday is all about right here on Ranch Raised! It is pear season in the US! Many old homesteads are still dotted with the occasional pear tree or orchard.

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!

All signs point to current and tightening supplies of fed cattle!

I have been doing a lot of thinking about this subject after I listened to a recent podcast on the Old Fashion On Purpose channel. We have become a nation that decades ago started abandoning the principle that the home was a place of production and instead morphed into this place of consumption.

As I left off yesterday telling you about my productive canning weekend, I also left you with a teaser. I am not an avid podcast listener. I want to be because there are so many great ones out there that appeal to me, but I always forget to put podcasts on in the car or when I’m folding laundry. But this weekend. I thought “why not fill the kitchen with some background noise while canning?!?”