The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys stars are gearing up to welcome Steven “Steve” McBee Sr. home early amid his two-year prison stint, Us Weekly can exclusively confirm.
“Thankfully, we’re down to less than two months now before he gets out,” Steve’s eldest son, Steven McBee Jr., exclusively told Us on Thursday, July 16, confirming that the farmer will not have to serve his complete sentence for crop insurance fraud in South Dakota, where he is currently being held.
Steven, 33, revealed that Steve, 54, was “able to get into a program that allows him to cut down on the time served.”
He noted that once his dad is released from FPC Yankton in Yankton, “He’ll be under home confinement for four to six months, but he gets out early.”
Us Weekly has reached out to FPC Yankton for comment.
Steve and his four sons, Steven, Jesse, Cole and Brayden McBee, were thrust into the spotlight when season 1 of their Bravo series premiered in 2024, highlighting their life running McBee Farm & Cattle Co. in Missouri.
Once the cameras stopped rolling that season, Steve made headlines of his own when he was charged with one count of crop insurance fraud in November 2024.
Steve pleaded guilty that same month and confessed that his farm sold “more than 1.2 million bushels of corn and nearly 416,000 bushels of soybeans” to another party in 2018, according to a press release.
In October 2025, Steve was sentenced to 24 months in prison with an additional two years of supervised release. He was ordered to pay $4,022,124 in restitution. During a June episode of The McBee Dynasty, fans learned that Steve — and his farm — were also ordered to pay $3 million in fines.
A judge ruled that Steve had to self-surrender on December 1, 2025, to begin his prison stay, which fans will see play out on the Monday, July 20, episode of the Bravo series.
According to Steven, his dad will be getting out of jail after serving less than one year behind bars — but every minute he’s been gone, their family has felt his absence.
Steven told Us on Thursday that his dad leaving was a “drastic change,” noting that they’ve “tried to fill in the hole that he left by having dinners at my house.”
Steven, who is the current CEO of their business, explained that his brothers Cole and Jesse come over frequently with their significant others and their daughters but something is missing.
“It’s not the same without [my dad] there, without a doubt,” Steven confessed. “His laugh, his jokes, his uplifting, positive attitude — we’ve been missing it.”
While Steven teased that viewers will see the emotional prison drop off in the next episode, behind-the-scenes he’s constantly been in touch with his dad.
Steven revealed that he emails Steve “once every week, week and a half” and that they talk on the phone “probably once every two weeks.”
When it comes to Steve’s return to Missouri, Steven said that their family dinners is what he’s most looking forward to — and hopefully seeing his dad slow down.
“The guy has been running businesses since he was 22 years old, so going on 30 plus years, and he’s just been go, go, go. His phone’s constantly blowing up,” Steven told Us of his dad’s life before prison. “And I think this has given him a good opportunity to take a step back and say, ‘OK, do we need to take over the world with businesses? Do we need to have 100 car washes? Do we need to build out?’ No, we don’t.”
While Steven is hopeful that his dad will be able to fully “enjoy the things that mean the most to us,” which are the family moments and “watching the sun set on the farm,” he will be working with his sons soon enough.
“As far as my dad’s role, whenever he gets out, we laugh around the family, and we say, ‘We’re [going to] have him on a leash whenever he gets out,’” Steven teased. “He’s going to be very limited to what he can do. He’s going to be focused on one project.”
Steven explained that although Steve is the “hardest worker” they joke that he has “squirrel brain” because “five seconds of focus is all you get out of him” before he moves to something new.
“We’re going to reel that in and say, ‘Here is your one project. You start this project, you finish it before you go anywhere else,’” he told Us with a laugh. “And so he’ll definitely be very, very constrained in what he can do.”
The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.
