Your Ag Network

When you are farming, you are faced with a lot of unknowns - What will the weather be like? Will these low prices ever recover?

Being in lock down like most of our citizens and trying to celebrate Mother’s Day made me think. My mother was so dedicated to my 2 sisters, me and of course my dad. Mom & Dad were married in 1934 and in 1935 I was born. We were living in a small house with no running water, no bathroom and no electricity but we had an outhouse.

The cost of unemployment and economic hardship from the global coronavirus pandemic is no small change. We have not had to face anything like this since World War II.

Monte James interviews MacKenzie Johnston about life on the ranch, what keeps her busy and her push to keep MCOOL while taking a little heat.

It seems like every day another major meat processing plant is closed. We have farms with hundreds or thousands of pigs ready for market but they can’t find any plants that will take their pigs.

Nebraska Rancher and NFR Bronc Rider Steven Dent rides rough on ranching and rodeo in today's Hot Barn Report!

Monte James Interviews MacKenzie Johnston about whats new in her life on the Nebraska ranch, and about her new job in the wake of being recently fired for standing up for the independent producer and her intent to continue.

I have always believed it is important to speak the truth and speak it loudly. It is essential to speak it loudly when its’s on behalf of someone else. These beliefs of mine propelled me to create two Facebook posts explaining my termination. Somewhere along the line we forgot to protect our independent producers, and this unfortunate situation allowed me to speak up for those producers.

One of our nation’s priorities is to keep the food flowing but because of the coronavirus we are facing some serious disruptions. Just last Sunday, Smithfield Foods closed down its pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. That plant is no small thing.

HBR caught up with Bill Bullard from R-CalfUSA on the fight against big packers and the push to be COOL.