Agricultural Dynasty: The Rise of McBee Farms a 40,000 Acre Empire w/Steven McBee
Barn Talk
This'll Do Farm
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Barn Talk! In this episode, we're thrilled to have Steven McBee in the barn, sharing tales from football fields to farm fields. Steven’s not your ordinary farmer; he’s hunting big game in business and on land, saving cash and cutting through the conventional farming noise. He’s all about building empires, not just barns, and he’s ready to dish on how he’s planting the seeds for success in agribusiness and beyond. We'll get his take on wealth, work-life balance, and the tight-knit tapestry of the McBee legacy. Expect to hear raw insights on transitioning from sports to steering a farming dynasty, all without losing sight of what truly counts. Huddle up, folks—it's going to be a barn burner of a show with Steven McBee, where the wisdom is as rich as the soil. Let’s dig in
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| 0:00.0 | All of the food we eat in much of the clothing we wear comes from plants and animals that are raised on farms. |
| 0:05.4 | Farms are different in type, in size, and even in name. Welcome to Barn Talk. |
| 0:13.0 | What happens at the barn stays in the barn, but not today. We're |
| 0:26.7 | going to let it all out for you guys. Today is going to be a special guest episode. |
| 0:31.6 | We've been kind of on a roll. We've got a lot of guests |
| 0:33.6 | coming down to Southeast Iowa and it's been nice. So we got some banked episodes and |
| 0:39.2 | they've probably already came out but man just a lot of guests being able to come down in the spring summer months which is |
| 0:46.0 | awesome so consistency is not that great yeah we either can't get guests or we got |
| 0:51.7 | we go in spurt so I'd love to do a hot topics. |
| 0:55.4 | There's so many great hot topics and a hot topics is coming soon because I'm just |
| 0:59.4 | Jones and doing one but when the opportunity presents itself you got a strike you got to go yeah |
| 1:05.8 | and I mean ideally we'd like a Q&A and a hot topics in between every single guess |
| 1:10.1 | but sometimes it just doesn't work out that way so we're going to try our best to do that kind of that rhythm but |
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| 1:41.4 | and buy some meat from our direct consumer meat |
| 1:43.6 | business. We're going to have some American wagoo on there coming soon. Some beef |
| 1:48.0 | Black Angus beef, Upper Choice, Dry Age, Dry dry-aged, waggy, pork, might have some chicken on there, so a lot's kind of happening |
| 1:58.9 | in 2024 with that, so hopefully there's something on there that you'd like. |
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