$30 Million to Take Out Massie. 425 Beef Plants Into China. Make It Make Sense. — 5/20/26

Valentine Made History. Packers Low-Balled All Week. Screwworm at the Wire. | FFRRR Fri. May 29

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. Only 1,559 head traded through Thursday morning. The $7 standoff held. Chains ramp back to 530–540K next week — that's the pressure point. Slaughter for the Memorial Day week came in at 448,000 head — the smallest Memorial Day week cattle kill in modern history. YTD kill is running 9.2% below last year's pace. Heavier cattle (avg live weight 1,469 lbs, up 45 lbs year-over-year) are backstopping beef output, but YTD beef production is still 6.6% below the prior year. Boxed beef ribs ran +$18.50/cwt in a single week. Choice cutout closed at $391.47 — net up $1.20 on the week despite two down days Friday. Screwworm is 60 miles from the U.S. border. All southern ports of entry remain closed to livestock imports. No timeline on reopening. Mexican cattle are not coming. That feeder supply hole stays open heading into summer. Strait of Hormuz: U.S. and Iran agreed to a 60-day ceasefire extension. Shipping stays unrestricted — for now. WTI crude sold off on the news, erasing an earlier 3% gain. First crack in 14 straight weeks of fertilizer price increases showed up this week — potash and UAN32 eased. High Plains drought is expanding. Kansas Poor-to-Very Poor winter wheat: 55%. National Good/Excellent: 26%. Nevada and Great Basin fire outlook: above normal through summer. Fallon Livestock Special Feeder Sale — Tuesday, June 9, 2026. burnindaylight.substack.com · burnin-daylight.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

June Swoon Watch, Tigers in Trouble & Weekend Series Preview | BD Baseball 5-29-26

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 to Boston where the Braves roll through Fenway and Ronald Acuña Jr. hits a grand slam off the Monster because of course he does. We get into why teams are spamming breaking balls at the Cubs and how that turned their May into a disaster, plus another Paul Skenes start where he shoves and gets nothing from the offense or the bullpen. We also talk about the Astros coming on, the Rangers wobbling, and the AL West being wide open if anybody wants to grab it, while the Brewers and the rest of the NL Central look like a damn gauntlet. We run through injuries and roster moves — Twins shuffling pieces, Steven Kwan heading to the paternity list, more bad news for the Rockies’ pitching staff, and Andrew McCutchen getting released when everyone on earth just wants to see him finish up in Pittsburgh. Then we look ahead to the weekend: Padres at Nationals, Twins at Pirates, Cubs at Cardinals, Tigers at White Sox, Angels at Rays, Brewers at Astros, Giants at Rockies, Yankees at A’s, D‑backs at Mariners and Phillies at Dodgers. We wrap it up with the official BD June Swoon Watch List — Cubs, A’s, Rangers, Pirates and Padres — talk about who might actually get hot instead (Jays, Phillies, maybe even the Tigers if the baseball gods ever cut them a break), and then wander into NBA Western Conference Finals Game 7, Knicks Finals talk, the Toy Story/Avalanche Stanley Cup “conspiracy,” and a Little League “most improved” story from my team. Move your ass. We’re burnin’ daylight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

$47M Beef Settlement, 180-Day Feedyard Record & FTC Pulls the Subpoenas | Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report 5-28-26

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 million‑dollar civil settlement on beef price‑fixing for commercial buyers — with the DOJ criminal probe still hanging out there. * Trump’s Argentina quota expansion and the 200‑day beef TRQ suspension that swing the foreign beef door wide open during a historically tight U.S. herd. * The FTC’s fresh investigation into fertilizer pricing — on top of DOJ — while anhydrous, DAP, MAP, UAN, and urea all sit more than 150% above 2020. * Base acre elections, CRP emergency grazing, Nebraska wheat damage, and what that means if you run cows or farm ground. * Tigers hurting, Brewers rolling, A’s hanging around in the AL West, and an “On This Day” that runs from the Indian Removal Act to the Sierra Club and cloned horses. If this show is worth something to your operation, the best thing you can do is tell one neighbor who runs cows or farms ground and send them my way. Read the write‑up, get the transcript, and support the show over on Substack: 👉 https://burningdaylight.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Tigers Finally Win, A’s Fall Apart, Brewers Roll, Cubs Panic | BD Baseball 5-28-26

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. From there we hit Rockies–Dodgers and Shohei throwing six no-hit innings while basically pitching against himself, the Blue Jays maybe waking up, the Guardians being quietly legit behind Gavin Williams, and the Nationals turning into an over machine with James Wood and CJ Abrams both on a tear. We dig into Seattle finally hitting a lefty against Jeffrey Springs, Logan Gilbert and the stacked Mariners rotation, the AL West being kind of trash, the Tigers’ much-needed 4–0 win, and how it feels to watch your team lose in every possible way. Then it’s Christopher Sánchez’s filthy scoreless streak for the Phillies, Padres pitching rumors as the Dodgers and Diamondbacks heat up, Ketel Marte going God mode, and why Paul Skenes with run support feels wrong but beautiful. Down the stretch we talk Brewers as a full-on pitching factory with Miserowski and Harrison, Cubs grinding through a ten-game skid and sliding into crisis mode, whether the Pirates hang around or just play spoiler, Murakami chasing records for the White Sox, the Royals being back to ‘Bobby Witt and nobody else,’ the Astros starting to wake up behind Yordan’s heater, and the Rockies getting the most Rockies run you’ll ever see off Shohei without a hit. We close with today’s light getaway slate, a couple of overs and moneylines we like, and a quick look ahead to a spicy weekend: Padres–Nats, Tigers–White Sox, Cubs–Cards, Brewers–Astros, D-backs–Mariners, Yankees–A’s, and Phillies–Dodgers. Move your ass, we’re burnin’ daylight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

A's Said Gage Jump, M's Said How High | BD Baseball 5-27-26

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–Red Sox turning into a sweat, the Cubs’ skid getting uglier in Pittsburgh, Brewers bullying the Central again, Rangers–Astros turning into a home run contest, Phillies stealing one in San Diego, D‑backs punching the Giants in the mouth, and more. Then it’s standings and pain: AL West clown car, NL Central power, how far the Tigers and Rockies are from “respectable,” plus the injury/transaction hits that actually matter — Aaron Civale to the IL and Gage Jump up, Logan Henderson’s back barking in Milwaukee, Luis Robert Jr. and Tyrone Taylor both shelved, Craig Kimbrel patching Tampa’s pen, Alejandro Kirk to the 60‑day, Noah Schultz down on the South Side. If you’re an A’s/Tigers/Rockies sicko or just like watching MLB chaos from a safe distance, this one’s for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]