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Burnin’ Daylight

A podcast explaining and celebrating the intricacies, wisdom and humor of cowboy/ cowpuncher/ buckaroo culture. Enjoy conversations with working cowboys, authors, musicians, business leaders and hilariously offensive news and political analysis from the viewpoint of your favorite feedlot cowboy, Matt McKinley. The podcast for the working cowboy!

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38:44

Screwworm, Cattle Floor & Diesel Pain – FFRRR Weekly...

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2026/04/25

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 amendments headed into a floor vote next week. We run the full board: Markets (live cattle, feeders,

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33:14

Cargill Shuts Milwaukee Beef Plant | Herd at 75‑Year...

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2026/04/23

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 towns — then walk the tape from cash cattle and boxed beef inversion all the way out to crude, diesel,

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71:32

Who Holds the Choke Point? — Friggin' Farm & Ranch...

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2026/04/23

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, June live at $242.875, even as cash holds $248 and boxed beef stays inverted with Select still a buck

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29:26

Cattle Bleeds Red, Country Trade Runs Hot — Friggin'...

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2026/04/22

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 heifers are bringing 503 and running-age pairs are tagging 4,700 a head in the country – the kind of

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30:26

Tighten the Cinch — Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report...

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2026/04/21

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 0.53%, but futures and feeders still selling off for a third straight session. We hit cash cattle at 248

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40:17

Cattle Pull Back From All-Time Highs | Hormuz...

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2026/04/17

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 expanded this morning to weapons interdiction. 13 vessels turned back, 10 Iranian-flagged tankers

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37:13

Burn Scars, $252 Cattle & $5.60 Diesel — Friggin'...

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2026/04/16

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 federal grass sitting there if you're stubborn enough to chase it. We're not here to cheerlead the

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115:50

Opening Day Preview - 2 Weeks In

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2026/04/15

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 hit all the early storylines hardcore baseball fans actually care about: Juan Soto and Brent Rooker

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50:34

War Premium Off, Cattle Still Stubborn — Friggin’...

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2026/04/15

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 feeder trade with the CME index closing the gap, hogs stuck in the mud, corn and beans acting tired,

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52:38

Live Cattle Hit $250, Iran Blockade Spikes Crude, JBS...

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2026/04/14

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: • Livestock — June live cattle $249.20 (contract high), feeders $374.82, hogs $103.72 (4th straight

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53:24

Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report — Weekly Wrap | April...

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2026/04/11

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 the sale barn side, we run the Sale Barn Double-Shot with cattle runs across the West plus a firm

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32:39

Man About a Horse — Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report...

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2026/04/10

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 Southwest. War reel: Ukraine grinding, Israel-Hezbollah trading shots, Hormuz still a choke point. Policy

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47:20

War Premium Off, Cattle Still Tight — Friggin' Farm &...

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2026/04/09

War, ceasefire, and a cattle market that refuses to roll over.In this Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report for Wednesday, April 8, 2026, Matt walks through a wild 24 hours where Trump's Pakistan-brokered two-week truce with Iran knocked crude down as much as 18%, only for the whole deal to start cracking before the ink was dry. We talk Hormuz, Lebanon, OSINT, and what a "ceasefire" actually means when tankers, missiles, and diesel bills are all tied together. From there, it's one clean after-close

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43:22

War, Weather & Cattle Checks – Friggin’ Farm & Ranch...

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2026/04/07

War premium, ugly diesel, tight cattle, and DC nonsense – today’s Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report (April 7, 2026) runs from the ring to the war zone and back to your wallet.Matt kicks off with Lone Star Stockyards’ run at Wilderado – 1,168 head with feeders $10–$20 higher and calves sharply higher on a light test – then walks through fats, feeders, hogs, and a grain board trading war, weather, and rumors. He lays out crude over $100, national diesel around $5.64, DAP at $682, urea at $549, potash

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41:01

Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report | War Premium, Tight...

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2026/04/02

Today's show is a war-premium, tight-cattle, DC-on-fire kind of day. $110 crude, JBS strike Day 11, Trump's prime-time Iran address, the Farm Bill and PRIME Act moving in Congress, cattle price transparency, grazing and WOTUS, and a drought picture that's burning up the Southern Plains. All of it, straight through.Sponsored by LoneStar Stockyards — Amarillo, TX. Real markets, honest weigh-ups, buyers who show up to bid. Topics: Cattle markets | Energy & crude oil | Grains | JBS strike | Iran

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29:39

After the Bell — Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report (April...

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2026/04/02

After the Bell for Wednesday, April 1, 2026.The Dow rallied 274 points on ceasefire hopes while the Pentagon loads a third carrier strike group into the Gulf. Wheat lost 3% in a single session the day after USDA said we're planting the fewest wheat acres since 1919. Diesel is $5.40 a gallon. Nobody in cattle country is laughing. Today's show covers USDA Prospective Plantings fallout, cattle board recap with fats at 244.05 and feeders at 368, the disconnect between Wall Street and the war,

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32:39

After the Bell — Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report (March...

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2026/03/31

After the Bell for Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Live cattle holding the low 240s, feeders firm, and May corn creeping toward $4.60. Full war desk update on the U.S.-Israeli air campaign in Iran, Red Sea shipping threats from the Houthis, and what the Strait of Hormuz shutdown means for your diesel and fertilizer bill. Deep dive on the JBS Greeley strike entering its third week and why packer labor risk lands on producers. Colorado wolf program reality check with over $1.3 million in depredation payouts,

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36:05

Two Threats at the Gate — Friggin' Farm & Ranch...

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2026/03/31

Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report — Two Threats at the Gate (March 30, 2026)Markets finished the day choppy: cattle held up but faded off early strength, grains leaked lower, and the big outside board is still trading war-premium and politics. The tape matters, but the real story today is what's crawling toward the southern border and what Russia might be hiding in Siberia. In this episode: - Cattle & hogs: June live cattle at 209.55 up 1.05; feeders at 293.30 up 1.85; hogs at 89.125, still

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32:35

War Desk, Cattle Leverage & the Viagra Anniversary —...

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2026/03/28

The Iran war isn't just a map on cable news -- it's American kids from farm towns and ranch schools sitting in missile range. This week: cattle held their ground, hogs sulked, grains stayed cheap, and the big outside markets are trading war headlines harder than USDA reports. In this episode: - Livestock close: live cattle up, feeders strong, hogs under pressure - Grains close: corn soft, beans fading rallies, wheat algorithm-trading - Macro & metals: crude spiking on war premium, gold and

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42:35

Iran War, Fertilizer Squeeze & Opening Day — Friggin'...

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2026/03/26

Today on The Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report:The U.S. is now at war with Iran — and the markets are reacting. Crude oil is surging, diesel is following, and if you're running cattle, farming, or hauling anything, your input costs just got a whole lot more real. We're breaking down what the Iran conflict means for fuel, fertilizer, and feed prices. We'll hit the latest cattle and grain futures, dig into drought conditions, and talk about what this all means for your bottom line heading into

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