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 listen to the interview and hear the latest news direct from Washington D.C.

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. Think about our own fighters that died and their families. The Biden administration did not have a departure plan. It is humiliating. The whole world is watching.

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.”