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Studio blew up on me yesterday, so today's Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report is a two-day catch-up for May 5–6. We put the Big Four packer antitrust story right up front, then walk the board, the barn, inputs, drought, and DC without making you bounce your head off the wall. We talk packer leverage, what a real DOJ case would mean for cow-calf outfits and feedyards, and why nothing has "fixed" cash tra...

Well, welcome back, daylight burners. How the hell are ya? Spent yesterday arguing with AI chatbots and my shit wasn't working, but the studio's finally alive again, so let's talk some damn baseball. We kick it off with Tarik Skubal's elbow surgery — loose bodies in there, Tigers' ace on the shelf, and the only real news from Monday turning into a "well, that's not ideal" situation. Then we roll t...

Board took a breather, cash is still doing the heavy lifting, and the sale barns plus the video boys are telling you this feeder and replacement market is not done yet. This is your Monday reset for May 4, 2026. We start with the scoreboard: fats at 251.95, feeders at 366.98, corn at 4.85½, beans at 12.22¼, and wheat just under 6.96. On feed sits at 11.55 million head with February placements at 1...

Welcome back, Daylight Burners. Happy Sunday – Monday’s staring us down again – but it’s weekly recap time for Burnin’ Daylight Baseball. Jake was at the Tigers game getting lit up while Detroit was rolling, the A’s and Rockies gave us a little heartburn, and we’re a month into the season with some things starting to feel real. We kick off with a full Sunday scoreboard: Astros–Red Sox in extras, M...

Title: Daily MLB Rundown: Scores, Standings & Today’s Slate | May 2 Description: Welcome back, Daylight Burners — it was a wild night around Major League Baseball and not a particularly kind one to the A’s, Tigers, or Rockies. Matt runs through Friday’s scoreboard, updated division standings, and previews today’s pitching matchups so you’re dialed in before first pitch. In this episode: - D-backs...

Friday, May 1, 2026 — two days folded into one. We didn’t get a Thursday tape out, but the news sure as hell didn’t slow down for us. Here’s what moved while you were doctoring calves and fixing fence: Farm Bill H.R. 7567 PASSES the House 224–200, and the pesticide preemption “Luna 28” amendment gets STRUCK on the floor 280–142. The chemical lobby took a bipartisan ass‑kicking, and producer right‑...

We’ve made it through the first month of the 2026 MLB season and the world is upside down in all the right ways. The Rockies close April at 14–18 and somehow not in last place in the NL West, actually playing competitive baseball and keeping me locked in night after night. Over in West Sacramento, my A’s are 16–14 and sitting on top of the AL West heading into a home set with Cleveland. In this ep...

I’m a little late getting this one out, but we’re talking baseball for Thursday, April 30. The A’s wake up alone on top of the AL West, the Tigers get their guts ripped out in Atlanta, and the Rockies hang a big crooked 13 on the Reds. I go game‑by‑game through Wednesday’s MLB scoreboard straight off mlb.com — Guardians over the Rays behind Gavin Williams and a two‑run knock from Chase DeLauter, A...

Cash cattle just blew the doors off. Northern trade hit $256/cwt, smashing last week’s $248.38 record by $7.62 in one shot, while Texas printed $250 and the June board tried to hang onto its breakout by 30 cents at $253.45. We talk why the cash bid is this hot — 75‑year low cow herd, shrinking plant capacity, and over a million burned acres in the Sandhills — and what has to break on the demand si...

We blew the morning slot, so you’re getting the full BD Sports whiparound on a sneaky‑wild couple days in MLB instead. We start with a “light” Monday slate of eight games: Rays 3–2 over Cleveland to push to 17–11 while the Guardians fall back to .500, the Cardinals closing in on the Pirates with a win in Pittsburgh, Dylan Cease finally taking his first loss as the Red Sox blank the Blue Jays 5–0,...

The Plains are on fire, cattle are ripping, and diesel’s lock is starting to crack. On this Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report for Tuesday, April 28, 2026, we start with over 1 million acres burned across Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, Nebraska alone pushing 800,000 acres with the Morrill Fire at 643,000 — the biggest single recorded wildfire in modern state history. June live cattle futures close at 25...

Monday’s show covered the live farm bill fight, a cattle market that keeps firming, and why the Strait of Hormuz still matters to ranchers. June live cattle closed at 244.875 for a third straight session above Matt’s 242.875 floor call, while USDA’s April Cattle on Feed report confirmed 11.6 million head on feed, placements down 7%, and marketings down 6%. Boxed beef flipped back with Choice at 38...

The A's are in sole possession of the AL West, the Tigers are climbing the ladder in the AL Central, and the Rockies are NOT awful. Matt (A's/Rockies) and Jake (Tigers/Rockies) break down a wild weekend in MLB. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: • Rockies SWEEP the Mets in doubleheader (Mets scored 1 run in 18 innings) • Chase Dolander dominates: 7 IP, 0 R, 7 K vs NYM • Connor McGonigal leading MLB in WAR (.333...

Howdy, daylight burners. Friday weekly wrap of the Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins bailed on her Douglas, Arizona screwworm facility ribbon-cutting with no reschedule while the parasite sits about 80 miles off the Texas border. Cattle finally look like they're building a floor, crude stayed hot even with a little profit-taking, and the Farm Bill picked up a stack of amend...

Cargill is shutting down its Milwaukee beef plant and cutting 221 jobs because the U.S. cattle herd is too tight to keep every old kill floor fed. The board is skittish, packer margins are ugly, and diesel is still high enough to hurt. In this Thursday 4/23/26 Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report, we break down what that Cargill closure really signals about the cattle cycle, packer leverage, and plant tow...

President Trump kicks the can on the Iran ceasefire, and Iran answers by grabbing two more ships in the Strait of Hormuz while firing on a third. EIA prints a surprise crude draw — 1.9 million barrels pulled when the street was looking for a 2.2 million barrel build — and diesel is sitting at $5.511 at the pump with WTI riding $91–$92. Meanwhile the cattle board has printed five straight red days,...

Cattle futures are bleeding red, but the country trade is still hot as a branding iron. On today's Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report for Tuesday, April 21, 2026, we walk through the seventh straight down day in live cattle while OKC National, Joplin, Salina, Beaver County, and Lone Star are still moving big runs at stout money. June fats closed 243.50, down 8.50 off last week's record, but 500-pound he...

Hormuz opened, oil crashed, then Iran slammed the door shut again and the U.S. Navy shot a hole in an Iranian cargo ship for good measure — all while the latest Cattle on Feed report quietly confirmed the bull story for cattle. In this episode of the Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report, we walk through a “cautiously bullish, elevated risk” market: COF placements down 7.67% year over year, on feed down 0....

Cattle markets take a breather after Tuesday's all-time high of $253.60 on April live cattle. June fats down almost $3 at midday, feeders hammered $1-$4 on higher corn. But don't panic — cash hasn't traded yet this week, Fed Cattle Exchange listed 1,222 head with bids $2.46-$2.48 and not a single animal sold. This is a cash-led bull market and sellers are holding the line. The Hormuz blockade expa...

Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report on Burnin' Daylight. Cattle just printed 252-dollar highs, feeders are hot again, boxed beef finally quit that upside-down nonsense, and diesel's sniffing 5.60 with no sign of shame. Nebraska's wearing burn scars, 40,000 head are out of place, USDA's talking about cracking the Mexico feeder tap, screwworm's edging north, and BLM swears there's 24 million acres of feder...

Jake and Matt are finally back and ripping around the league for their (slightly late) 2026 MLB “Opening Day” special. They start with the Detroit Tigers: last year’s brutal division collapse, the playoff run that followed, and why a roster built around Scooble, McGonigle, Colt Keith, Parker Meadows and a deep bullpen might make them the team to beat in the AL Central this year. From there they hi...

Crude finally gave a little back, but diesel didn't, wheat got drunk again, and the cattle market still refuses to blink. In today's Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report, we walk through day two after the Hormuz shock: WTI backing off into the low 90s, diesel still north of $5.60, wheat ripping 8% in a day, and live cattle camped out in record country. We hit the board first -- April and June live, heavy...

Live cattle just printed an all-time record — $251.77 on the continuous chart. Cash cattle in Iowa hit $250. And crude oil ripped above $104 after the U.S. Navy blockaded Iranian ports. Diesel's north of $5.60 and headed to $6. Urea is up 46% year-over-year. It's a record-revenue, record-cost market — and the guys who keep their head are the ones who'll still be ranching next year. Today's show: •...

This week’s Weekly Wrap is a full barn. JBS Greeley’s workers are back on the line with no contract, diesel jumps another 24 cents to $5.64, and USDA’s April WASDE reminds everybody there still aren’t enough cattle and there’s too much wheat. We break down live and feeder cattle, cash trade, slaughter pace, boxed beef, and what a below-capacity kill floor means for your fats and your calves. On th...

Today's Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report is a "don't screw up" kind of market. Live cattle in the high 240s, feeders still stout, May corn in the mid-$4s taking some pressure off the bunk. Cash rundown from OKC West, Clovis, Billings, and a horse market with starch back in the cull floor. Inputs: diesel at $5.643/gal, WTI near $98, DAP/urea still painful. Drought hammering the southern Plains and Sout...