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It has taken me a lot of chocolate to get through this week, which means I have a lot to recap for you! First of all, Texas A&M submitted a book, literally a book to the House Ag Committee last week that was entered in to testimony for the hearing on the state of the livestock industry. It literally denounced all the reforms that cattle producers like you and I are working for because after all, s...

BIG Thursday Price Discovery Edition of the Hot Barn Report! Heard ONLY on American radio stations across the nation and online at hotbarnreport.com!

A quick roundup of this weeks offering at THEE BIGGEST sale barns across the Midwest! Heard ONLY on American radio stations across the nation and online at hotbarnreport.com!

A quick roundup of this weeks offering at THEE BIGGEST sale barns across the Midwest! Heard ONLY on American radio stations across the nation and online at hotbarnreport.com!

So I pose the question to NCBA, if during the midst of the market crisis isn’t the time to make changes, then when is? When we are all out of business? Do we make changes after the next generation never has a chance to enter the industry? The conversations with those women in SD are still fresh in my mind and on my heart. This generation is working for a break even right now, in a good year. The n...

The Woudstra Meat Market has history in the area going back to 1926, sourcing local beef for local consumers. The future hopefully holds USDA certification to grow their new meat processing facilities and a farm to table food establishment.

The truth is nothing is turning in the fat cattle market. It is stagnant and it stinks! Can I tell you about completely intentional consequences of doing nothing about this situation, fewer buyers in the barns! Yep, across the corn belt there will be some feed wagons that collect dust, if they don’t get sold on a farm sale this fall. When there is no cash market for independent feeders to sell in...

Karina Jones, Field Director for R-Calf USA joins us each Friday from her ranch in the heart of Nebraska covering what's new and important to the family farm and ranch.

Big annual BBQ sale and R-CalfUSA rollover auction will go down this Wednesday… just a massive calf and yearling sale featuring a plethora of char cross and limousine cross packages, take a gander at the all-star lineup and buy safely online at cattleusa.com.

A quick roundup of this weeks offering at THEE BIGGEST sale barns across the Midwest! Heard ONLY on American radio stations across the nation and online at hotbarnreport.com!

Karina Jones, Field Director for R-Calf USA joins us each Friday from her ranch in the heart of Nebraska covering what's new and important to the family farm and ranch.

Heard On Over 60 Midwestern Radio Stations! Your Source For The Latest Rodeo News With Host Monte James

From the Sioux Steel Booth at Husker Harvest Days - R-Calf USA Field Director Karina Jones and Monte James talk about the success of the event.

A quick roundup of this weeks offering at THEE BIGGEST sale barns across the Midwest! Big tip of the hat to Karina Jones with her cutting-edge interview with Senator John Thune regarding the Thune, Rounds, Tester, Booker bill concerning mandatory country of origin labeling for us be. If you are even remotely connected to the beef industry from rancher to burger flipper, do you self a favor and lis...

Hot Barn Report's Karina Jones interviews South Dakota Senator John Thune at the 2021 South Dakota Stock Growers Association convention in Spearfish South Dakota.

Karina Jones, Field Director for R-Calf USA joins us each Friday from her ranch in the heart of Nebraska covering what's new and important to the family farm and ranch.

President Biden surrenders to the Taliban. The war in Afghanistan is officially over. After 20 years of conflict and more than 2400 American lives lost and 20,000 of our service members wounded, and now the Taliban rules Afghanistan. I wanted us to get out. But not like we did.

A quick trip down memory lane huntin’ with the Tyson big-dawgs in the heart of pheasant country on todays HBR! Tip of the hat to Farm Broadcaster Col Jon Phillips and R-CalfUSA Pioneer Johnny Smith, plenty to be learned from some of the greats!

Attendees of the R-CalfUSA National Convention had a surprise visit from Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota. Senator Rounds recently submitted a comment in opposition of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Center for Public Policy (NCBA) petition which called for the elimination of the “Product of USA” label and the creation of a new “Processed in USA” label.

I’m going to target a number of timely issues today. But the one in the headlines is the almost overnight collapse of the Afghan government. In the last 2 or 3 weeks the Taliban has taken control of the whole country. It is absolute chaos. I have for years hoped we could get out of Afghanistan. But not like this. After fighting a war for 20 years and spending more than $1 trillion, we have nothing...

What we are hearing from the industry elites, you know the economists, the lobbyists, those from academia who like to do the talking for those us stuck at home doing chores, putting up hay, and feeding cattle, “Everything is fine. Look away. It’s a cycle. Listen, The south is trying.”

We read and hear about a $3.5 trillion anti-poverty and climate bill the Democratic leadership wants to pass. But we can’t afford to spend that much money. They say, “no problem. We can just tax the rich.”

Big Breaking News out of Washington. The USDA has granted a 60 extension on the Beef Checkoff petition. Here’s the 60-day plan: If you’re a cattle producer, please go to www.checkoffvote.com to sign the petition if you haven’t already.

Monte James interviews Brian Winter of Winter Livestock and CattleUSA.com

A quick roundup of this weeks offering at THEE BIGGEST sale barns across the Midwest!