The MJM Rodeo Company brand stands for the first initial of each of the three Barnes children – Mitzi, John and Marty.Īfter developing a solid foundation in the rodeo business, MJM joined the PRCA in 1980.īarnes PRCA Rodeo has hauled stock all over the United States and Canada for more than 60 years. It only seemed fitting to name the company after the next generation in the Barnes family. In the late 1970s, Barnes PRCA Rodeo was in great demand to produce high school and college rodeos, so Bob and his wife, Donita, formed a second rodeo company to accommodate this opportunity.
He served for many years on the PRCA Board of Directors and the National Finals Rodeo Committee his younger son, John, is currently a member of the PRCA Board and is the livestock superintendent at the Wrangler NFR. Now named Barnes PRCA Rodeo, the company is the longest-running, individually-owned-and-operated stock contracting firm in the country and the major contributor to developing rodeo in the Midwest.īarnes was the 1984 PRCA Stock Contractor of the Year, was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1994, and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in 2010. The company travels through 32 states and more than 100,000 miles a year, with the furthest rodeo being more than 1,500 miles away. Now the fleet has grown to four tractors, 12 trailers, and numerous pickups. In the ‘60s, the fleet grew and so did the distance, to about 600 miles. In the 1950s, the farthest rodeo away from the family’s Peterson, Iowa, ranch was 350 miles.
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