Steve McBee Sr. has been sentenced to 24 months in prison after pleading guilty to crop insurance fraud.
The 52-year-old father-of-four — who stars on the reality series McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys — was ordered to serve two years behind bars by US District Court Judge Stephen R. Boug on Thursday.
His sentence also includes two years of supervised release and an order to pay $4,022,124 in restitution, per People.
Steve Sr. has until Monday, December 1 by 2pm to self-surrender.
Prosecutors previously asked the judge to sentence the TV personality to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
The patriarch received messages of support from two of his four sons via social media on Thursday.
Steve McBee Sr. has been sentenced to 24 months in prison after pleading guilty to crop insurance fraud
The 52-year-old father-of-four – who stars on the reality series McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys – was ordered to serve two years behind bars by US District Court Judge Stephen R. Boug on Thursday
Steve Jr wrote, ‘Love ya Dad. Whole family is here for you,’ while Cole said, ‘We will get through anything together. To the hardest working man I know, it’s our turn to be her for you. We got you dad.’
Thursday’s sentencing was meant to take place in March but was delayed multiple times.
It comes on the heels of news that the family’s reality show has been renewed for a third season.
Cameras returned to the Missouri ranch to document this week’s events.
Season one, which premiered in March 2024, began with the patriarch claiming that McBee Farm & Cattle Company was on its way ‘to being a billion-dollar company.’
He waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty to a federal investigation that charged him with one count of federal crop insurance fraud on November 5, 2024.
He admitted that he engaged in fraudulent activity from 2018 to 2020 by submitting false reports to insurance companies.
Steve Sr. underreported to Rain and Hail, a company reinsured by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, that his farming operations produced only 340,476 bushels of corn and 190,171 bushels of soybeans in 2018.
In reality, his farming operation sold more than 1.2 million bushels of corn and nearly 416,000 bushels of soybeans.
The patriarch received messages of support from two of his four sons via social media on Thursday, with Steve Jr. writing that the ‘whole family is here for you’
His son Cole vowed, ‘We will get through anything together. To the hardest working man I know, it’s our turn to be here for you. We got you dad’
L-R Steve Jr., Jesse, and Brayden McBee pictured with their dad
Steve’s sentencing comes on the heels of news that the family’s reality show has been renewed for a third season
As a result of the false reports, the farmer received $2,605,943 in federal crop insurance benefits, as well as $552,980 in federal crop insurance premium subsidies.
He also provided false information to Rain and Hail to obtain insurance for the McBee farming operation’s 2019 soybean crop by misrepresenting that soybeans were the first crop in certain fields when wheat had already been harvested from those fields.
In 2020 the farm planted corn after the last planting date that year, which made the crop ineligible for insurance.
However, Steve Jr. provided false plant dates on crop insurance documents to NAU Country Insurance.
The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys returned for a second season in 2025 and was moved from streaming on Peacock to Bravo.
