By Kaitlyn Lee Driscoll

Jason Roberts, a respected name in the rodeo world, can be seen hauling his championship bucking bulls in a new Bill Black Featherlite trailer awarded to him at the Professional Bucking Bull Association Finals. The 2009 PBBA Producer of the Year hales from Hamptonville, NC. In this little known town you can find grazing in a pasture a great herd of bucking stock including the 2009 PBBA High Point Bull "Short Notice". This High Point Bull title earned Jason a custom W-W Livestock hydraulic bucking chute. The Yadkin Valley Ranch is home to the Jason Roberts Rodeo Company. Jason, his wife Lacey and their two sons Jett and Jaden have created a respected enterprise from the ground up raising quality bucking stock and putting on top notch rodeos.

Jason was born in Laramie, Wyoming. He attended his first rodeo in Walden, Colorado when he was just 5 days old. He has competed in most every rodeo event including calf roping, team roping, bareback, saddle bronc and bull riding. He was a pickup man for the PRCA with Harper and Morgan Rodeo Company for years. Jason qualified for the National High School Rodeo Finals in Pueblo, Colorado in 1988 and 1989 He also holds a place in the Guinness Book of world records for being the youngest rodeo stock contractor; at the age of fourteen he produced his first junior rodeo event at his family’s Twin Rocks Ranch in Davison, NC.

A rodeo competitor and producer, Jason’s passion has always been in raising rough stock. He was producing stock for SRA and Southern States rodeos at the age of seventeen and initiated his own stock contracting business in 1985. He began by providing rough stock to junior rodeos and jackpots, but he quickly progressed to the big leagues of professional rodeos. It was in 1990 that he created Jason Roberts Rodeo Company, and he now stock contracts and produces events for the PBBA / NBRA, and SSPRA Rodeos. His passion for the sport has helped him to raise very talented animal athletes for over two decades. His stock can be seen on television weekly, and he holds eighteen "bucking bull of the year" awards in various associations every year since 1989. He also holds fifteen "bucking horse of the year awards".

Some of Jason’s prestigious bulls of the past include Oscar, Copenhagen Jesse, Death Valley, Ben the Bramer, Worm, and Oscar Jr. He has raised numerous bulls going back to Panhandle Slim, Sports Machine, Raspberry Wine, Bodacious, and Copenhagen Lite. In 1995 he sold two of his bulls, Death Valley Skoal and Copenhagen Cyclone to Harper and Morgan, both of which went to the NFR and PBR finals five times. Currently his bulls Red Devil, Lug Nut, Black Ice, Yadkin Valley Wine, and Short Notice are all highly competitive bulls in the PBBA. Red Devil was the Raleigh, NC futurity champion, and also the Asheville, NC Champion. Black Ice placed in the Tier 1 of bulls in Buckhead, GA, Yadkin Valley Wine placed in the Tier 2 of bulls in Newport, NC, and Lug Nut placed in the Tier 2 of bulls in Camden, SC. His bull Short Notice is the number one bull of the PBBA. In the Tier 1 of bulls, Short Notice placed 2nd in Gaffney, SC, 2nd in Newport, NC, 1st in Buckhead, GA, 3rd in Galax, VA, 1st in Newberry, OH, 2nd in Hillsville, VA 2nd in Danville, VA, 1st in Hamptonville, NC, 2nd in Camden, SC, 2nd in Savannah, GA, and 2nd in Kenansville, NC. Jason was also crowned the 2008 PBBA Producer of the Year.

With such an impressive record behind him, Jason Roberts and his animal athletes are the ones to beat! His stock and his events continue to top the list as some of the most impressive throughout the country, and at the rate he’s going, they will continue to do so for years to come! If you want to learn more about Jason Roberts, his stock, or upcoming events, you can go to the website www.jasonrobertsrodeo.com. Be sure to check out www.PBBAnow.com and www.NBRbull.com