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!

The 4-H pledge is no doubt, near and dear to my heart. And speaking of “heart”, the second line of the pledge addresses the “heart” that it takes to be successful in this youth development program, and in life in general.

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!

For many, 4-H becomes a way of life, for the rest of their life. Thanks for celebrating National 4-H Week with me right here 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!

To make the best better! Thanks for starting your week with me right here 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!

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.

Politico released a fiery article this week on the state of American agriculture and USDA’s response to that. There is no doubt that there is a flurry of penalty flags on the field but there seems to be no referees in sight to reign in the power that big ag corporations have wielded over rural America. I mean, one minute you buy a tractor, and the next you can’t even repair it in your own shop because the company that manufactured it seems to own the rights to repair it too.

According to a recent press release, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced legislation to stop the Biden administration from lifting a ban on imports of sheep and goat products until accurate studies show the possibility of contamination or transmission of diseases have been completely eliminated.