McBee Dynasty Renewed for Season 3, Will Film as Patriarch Steven McBee Is Sentenced in Fraud Case

The McBee Dynasty is returning for season 3.

Bravo announced on Tuesday, Oct. 15, that The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys has been renewed for a third season. Variety was the first to share the news.

The renewal news comes over a month after the conclusion of season 2 and over two years since the reality show first premiered in March 2024. The news also arrives as McBee family patriarch, Steven McBee Sr., is awaiting sentencing over his involvement in a multi-million dollar crop insurance fraud case.

Bravo shared on Tuesday that the season 3 cast has yet to be confirmed. The season 2 cast featured Steven McBee Jr., Cole McBee, Kacie Adkison, Alli Ventresca, Calah Jackson, Jesse McBee, Galyna Saltkovska, Kristi McBee, and Brayden McBee. It follows the family members as they “strive to rescue their farm and cattle ranch from financial ruin,” per a synopsis.

McBee Sr., 52, returned to the series, which initially premiered on Peacock before moving to Bravo for season 2, in the Aug. 11 episode. During the appearance, he met up with his sons while they were on a business trip in Nashville.

Steven Jr., 32, told PEOPLE in July that his father hadn’t appeared in season 2 at that point given the legal circumstances. “Our dad, it’s no secret, he’s going through the FBI investigation,” Steven Jr. said at the time.

“Just out of how delicate that situation is, it’s still ongoing and we’re hoping to have it wrapped up here before the end of the year, but just wanted to keep him out of any sort of public eye or anything, just until that situation is resolved. Just to protect him and protect our family,” he added.

Most recently, prosecutors asked U.S. District Court Judge Stephen R. Bough, to sentence McBee Sr. to 41 months in prison for his involvement in the fraud case. The memo — filed on Oct. 6 — also requested “three years’ supervised release, a mandatory restitution order of $4,022,124, a forfeiture money judgment and an order imposing the mandatory $100 special assessment.” His sentencing is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 16, after being rescheduled several times.

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In November 2024, the reality star (who owns McBee Farming Operations based in Gallatin, Missouri) pled guilty to a fraud scheme involving the receipt of federal crop insurance benefits that he was allegedly not authorized to get. The DOJ shared in a press release at the time that his plea served as an admission that he “engaged in fraudulent activity from 2018 to 2020 that caused an economic loss to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”

McBee previously admitted to making a false report to Rain and Hail, a company reinsured by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and confessed to sending “fraudulent documents to Rain and Hail that underreported his total 2018 corn crop by approximately 674,812 bushels and underreported his total 2018 soybean crop by approximately 155,833 bushels,” per the release.

The falsified reports allowed McBee to receive $2,605,943 in federal crop insurance benefits and $552,980 in federal crop insurance premium subsidies — for a total of $3,158,923 in benefits he was not authorized to get. The DOJ claimed the government’s total loss was $4,022,123 as a result of McBee’s fraud.