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The week of May 25, 2026 delivered one for the record books — and not just one record. Valentine Livestock in Valentine, NE set the highest daily weighted average for 7-weight steers in U.S. history: $407.28/cwt on 2,582 head. Five of the top 10 all-time 7-wt steer sales nationally now belong to Valentine — all set on the same day. Meanwhile, packers bid $253 live all week while yards held at $260...

It’s BD Baseball for Friday, May 29, 2026. Jake and I sort through a light Thursday slate and some heavy shit for a few teams. We start in Detroit: Skubal’s back on the IL, the offense is flat‑lined, and we’re asking out loud if the Tigers just suck this year and what a trade might even look like. From there we head to the South Side where the White Sox stay hot and Murakami keeps mashing, then up...

In today’s Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report for Thursday, May 28, 2026, I’m coming to you out of Yerington, Nevada with a full plate of cattle, policy, and bullshit to sort through. We talk: June live cattle 10 under cash while the 5‑Area cash price holds 260.45 and packers slow the chain. USDA’s May Cattle on Feed report showing a record 1.99 million head on feed 180 days or more. Tyson’s new 47 mill...

Jake’s back, the new studio actually works, and two-thirds of our homer teams lost again. We open with the Tigers finally snapping their skid against the Angels, at the cost of injuries to Casey Mize and Kenley Jansen, and then roll straight into the A’s pitching nightmare: Savale to the IL, Springs struggling, Severino bad, the carousel in full spin, and the bats cooling off in West Sacramento. F...

All three of our teams got their teeth kicked in last night, so we’re naming and shaming. The A’s waste Gage Jump’s debut while Emerson Hancock shoves, the Tigers let Vaughn Grissom hang six RBIs on them (grand slam included), and the Rockies give up 15 runs and five bombs to the Dodgers in front of 52,000 people. We rip through the whole Tuesday slate — Yankees hanging 15 on the Royals, Braves–Re...

In this episode of the Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report I’m pulling a lot of threads together: cattle on feed, beef imports, BLM’s backpedal on public lands, $5.60 diesel, and some very suspicious trades in oil and prediction markets. Here’s what I walk through: – May 1 Cattle on Feed: 11.6M on feed (+2% y/y), placements +6%, marketings –10% – first y/y increase in 18 months. dtnpf +1 – Beef cows stil...

Memorial Day gave us everything: a combined no-hitter in Texas, back‑to‑back walk‑off bombs from Colton Cowser, and the A’s somehow still sitting on top of the AL West. Matt goes solo today and runs through: Weekend recap: Rays–Yankees in the Bronx, Astros bending the Cubbies over at Wrigley, Royals–Mariners chaos, Twins sweeping Boston, and the Dodgers doing Dodgers things. Full Memorial Day slat...

I am flying solo today as Jake is live at Comerica Park for Tigers-Guardians Game 2. Full rundown of Wednesday's 15-game MLB slate: 🔥 Kyle Harrison — 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 11 K, Game Score 83 (Brewers 5, Cubs 0) 🔥 Chris Sale — 7 IP, 1 ER, 8 K, ERA 1.89 (Braves 9, Marlins 1) 🔥 Trey Yesavage — 6 IP, 0 R, 8 K, struck out Aaron Judge THREE times (Blue Jays 2, Yankees 1) 🔥 Shohei Ohtani — Leadoff HR + 5...

The cattle trade story of the year dropped this week and almost nobody connected the dots. China's GACC renewed 5-year licenses for 425 U.S. beef packing establishments — straight out of the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing. USMEF CEO Dan Halstrom called it "what we've been waiting for almost a year." Meanwhile, the same Washington that spent $30 million to primary Thomas Massie — the only guy in Congre...

The cattle trade story of the year dropped this week and almost nobody connected the dots. China's GACC renewed 5-year licenses for 425 U.S. beef packing establishments — straight out of the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing. USMEF CEO Dan Halstrom called it "what we've been waiting for almost a year." Meanwhile, the same Washington that spent $30 million to primary Thomas Massie — the only guy in Congre...

The morning crew was too polite to spell it out, so Matt did it after the close. Tuesday, May 19, 2026 — WTI settled $104.23 (+3%), Brent ~$111 (+~5%), and the Trump administration publicly admitted it called off an Iran bombing campaign yesterday. CENTCOM's Adm. Brad Cooper says he's ready to "execute a broad range of contingencies." Stocks got smoked, metals cratered, cattle bled on the board —...

Matt and Jake recap a brutal Monday around MLB: JT Ginn's 8 no-hit innings spoiled by Zach Neto's walk-off HR, the Mets putting up a 10-spot in the 12th to beat the Nats 16-7, the Rays staking their claim to the best record in baseball, the Brewers serving notice in the NL Central, and a Michael King–Yamamoto pitcher's duel in San Diego. Plus Acuña off the IL, Chadwick Trump called up, NBA double-...

Daylight Burners — Matt and Jake are back to wrap up another week of baseball. Livestream gremlins be damned, we recorded it anyway. What's in this one: - Tough week for Tigers, Rockies, and A's fans (but we survived) - The White Sox are 24-22 and chasing the Guardians — is this real life? - Murakami and Schwarber going nuclear (Schwarber more HRs than half the league since May 7) - Friday/Saturda...

Weekly wrap for the week ending May 16, 2026. It's been a week, daylight burners. Trump flew to Beijing, shook Xi's hand, declared fantastic deals, and flew home. The soy market said show me the purchase order — beans closed the week down 31 cents from Monday's peak. The one concrete thing that came out of that summit? China quietly renewed import licenses for 400+ US beef plants on Thursday. Five...

Happy Friday, daylight burners! Matt and Eric ride solo today (Jake's back Sunday) to recap a rough Thursday on the homer front and set up a loaded Rivalry Weekend. The A's drop a 5-4 heartbreaker to the Cardinals — Kurtz extends his on-base streak to 37 games with a leadoff bomb (two shy of Giambi's '98 A's record), but the bullpen coughs up the lead. The Rockies get rolled 7-2 in Pittsburgh as R...

The Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report — Thursday, May 14, 2026 Host: Matt McKinley from Yerington, Nevada Cash cattle hold at $260 live in the South while futures stay skeptical. Wheat surges again on WASDE-driven drought concerns. The Fertilizer Institute testifies to Congress on the Hormuz disruption's impact on global fertilizer supply. North Dakota pastureland tops $1,000/acre — a national first in...

Jake and I are back after a day off to break down a loaded Wednesday slate from around MLB. Pounded through some livestream gremlins to get this one out — there was too much baseball to skip. The story of the day was the youngsters: Henry Bolte and Michael Stefanic showing out in their MLB debuts for the A's, A.J. Ewing and Carson Benge powering the Mets' walk-off over the Tigers, and Drake Baldwi...

Two days of markets in one shot. This Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report folds Tuesday's May WASDE fireworks into Wednesday's cattle tape and policy mess. We start with WASDE-671: U.S. wheat chopped to 1.561 billion bushels, 424 million under last year and below the low end of the trade range. KE wheat runs 50 cents, corn and beans climb, and USDA quietly confirms the drought story we've been preaching...

Matt McKinley, coming at you out of Yerington, Nevada — Monday, May 11, 2026, post-close edition of the Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report. Split-personality tape today: grains ripped ahead of tomorrow's noon-Eastern WASDE, cattle got hammered on Trump-admin tariff-suspension headlines, and diesel is sitting 15 cents from an all-time national record. Engine's calling it WATCH at 51% medium confidence —...

Busy week of baseball. Streaks snapped, arms shoved, and a couple of fanbases went through it. Matt and Jake run through the Tigers snapping a five-game skid, the Reds finally waking up after eight straight losses, and the Cubs coming back to earth after a 10-game heater and 15 straight at Wrigley. They dig into why the NL Central looks like the best division in baseball right now, how the Rays qu...

Saturday, May 9, 2026. Coming in hot from Yerington. Standings are starting to mean something. Cubs ripped off ten straight, the Yankees got shut out by a 24-year-old throwing 103, and the Reds — last month's NL darlings — got hung with a ten-spot at home and dropped their eighth in a row. On today's show: • Misiorowski's 103.6 mph masterclass — first Brewers shutout of the Yankees since 1992 • Ce...

Matt McKinley wraps May 4-8, 2026 from Yerington, Nevada. Cash cattle printed an all-time record midweek and gave back into Friday — June live $248.90, August feeders $364.22. Boxed beef cracked Thursday and partially recovered Friday (Choice $389.02 / Select $385.17). EIA on-highway diesel $5.640, up 29¢ WoW. AAA national regular $4.546 / diesel $5.663 — pump up 25¢ two weeks running, $1.40 highe...

Coming in hot Friday morning out of Yerington — your daily MLB rundown. The Cubs have won nine in a row. The Reds have lost seven in a row. They're in the same division. Your A's are sitting in first place in the AL West after JT Ginn went 8 innings of one-run ball and the West Sacramento lineup hung 12 on the Phillies in their own park. Tonight: Chris Sale at Dodger Stadium, Max Fried vs Misiorow...

Thursday, May 7, 2026 — Yerington, NV. Three shows deep into the same story this week. Cash cattle printed $255.02 5-Area live and $399.08 dressed for the week ending May 3rd, but the board's bleeding and the cutout is cracking. Packers bought 72,513 head and ran a 313,000 weekly kill — down 34,133 from same week last year. That's leverage, not competition. In this episode: • Live data off the BDR...

Today on Burnin’ Daylight Sports, we run through a loud Wednesday in Major League Baseball: Paul Skenes dealing in Arizona, Nathan Eovaldi punching the Yankees in the mouth again, Andy Pages going full video game, and Marcus Semien cashing in at Coors. Then it’s a full division-by-division standings snapshot, AL West and AL Central chaos, Rockies pain in the NL West, and a look at today’s slate th...