Jesse McBee detailed how he and brothers Steven McBee Jr. and Cole McBee are running their family farm while awaiting their dad Steven “Steven” McBee Sr.’s sentencing following his FBI investigation.
“We’re still learning day by day kind of how it’s all going to play out and our different roles,” Jesse exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, August 27, of the family’s plans for McBee Farm & Cattle Co. amid Steve’s legal problems. “I’d say we’ve kind of settled into what we’re going to do.”
The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys star explained that as Steve awaits sentencing, which is set for November — and if he does go to federal prison — the brothers have figured out their hierarchy in the business.
“Steven has definitely [been] taking [on] more of the CEO role, kind of leading the charge,” Jesse told Us, noting that Steven will also be “taking over the meat company side” of their business.
He added that “Cole stepped up on the farm [and] is really running more of the farm side” and he has remained the “head of construction and [is] running the stuff down in the city while trying to help out during our busy seasons up here at the farm.”
Jesse, who is the second oldest son, didn’t say how their youngest sibling, Brayden McBee, was involved, but he does work on the farm.
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Throughout season 2 of The McBee Dynasty, Steven has hinted at his dad’s legal troubles, telling the cameras that Steve was under FBI investigation all of 2024. It wasn’t until the season finale, which aired on Monday, September 1, that Steven informed brothers Jesse and Cole about their dad’s predicament.
In November 2024, Steve was charged with one count of federal crop insurance fraud after being accused of making a false report to insurance provider Rain and Hill in 2018. He was also being looked at for his 2019 and 2020 crop reports.
He pleaded guilty that same month and confessed to selling “more than 1.2 million bushels of corn and nearly 416,000 bushels of soybeans” to another party, according to U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Missouri.
Steven, meanwhile, explained in the season finale that the charge could result in up to 30 years in prison for their father, which worried the brothers.
“This is the biggest hurdle we’ve ever faced in our lives,” Steven told his siblings on the episode, which was filmed just weeks before Steve pleaded guilty for his involvement in a multimillion-dollar fraud scam. “We’re going to be in the trenches together.”
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Jesse, for his part, told Us on Wednesday that they have “daily conversations” with the father about the investigation and “what the game plan is and how we’re going to move forward.”
Steve’s sentencing in his case is set for November and in the interim, his sons have taken over running the day to day on their Missouri farm.
“We’re still trying to figure out our roles, and I’m sure they’ll change just like everything … we’ll have to kind of compromise and figure out what works best for everybody,” Jesse told Us. “I wouldn’t say there’s an exact science to it. We’re just figuring it out day by day.”
He concluded, “At the end of the day, we’re still family, and we support each other no matter what. And that’s kind of how we’ve always been, how we always will be.”
The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys is currently streaming on Peacock.
