Wild Horses, Water Wars, and America's Vanishing Refineries
9/28/2026 Shows ↗ (Jump To Original Content)
Nevada rancher Hank Vogler joins Trent Loos on Rural Route to tackle issues threatening rural America. They expose the failures of the Bureau of Land Management's wild horse contraceptive program and explain how powerful advocacy groups have outmuscled livestock producers while herds explode across the West. The conversation turns to drought, water scarcity, and why water is being diverted to data centers and cities instead of agriculture. Trent and Hank examine the decline of U.S. oil refineries, from 636 in 1936 to 163 today, and warn about fragile global food supply chains, food inflation, and the lost art of food preservation.
