Heart of the North


Stock Contractor

Barnes PRCA Rodeo Company

Barnes Rodeo and Spooner Rodeo have partnered to bring you the best in professional rodeo now for 71 years at Spooner’s Heart of the North Rodeo. The Spooner Rodeo & Barnes Rodeo have continuously had the longest standing stock contractor relationship in the PRCA, never missing a year since the start of the Spooner Rodeo in 1954. Bob Barnes was one of Professional Rodeo’s most highly regarded and most enduring legends.

Each year Barnes PRCA Rodeo Company participates in rodeos across the United States. Encouraging rodeo’s future, they also do high school rodeos in Minnesota and Iowa, including the one at the Minnesota State Fair. Wrapping up the season, Barnes’ stock takes part in the Great Lakes Circuit Finals in Louisville, KY; and in Las Vegas, NV, both the Benny Binion World Famous Bucking Horse and Bull Sale and the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.

The Barnes PRCA Rodeo Company is the longest running rodeo company in the United States. Bob Barnes was named Stock Contractor of the Year in 1984. He was inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1994. Every year Barnes stock performs at the highest level at professional rodeos across the country.

Barnes Rodeo has thrived and is going where PRCA rodeo has never been before because they have been successful in four important ways:

  • Ability to set up an arena and chutes anywhere.
  • High quality livestock at every National Finals Rodeo.
  • Staying true to our American heritage – Patriotic.
  • When all are put together, the rodeo fans leave satisfied and craving more.