Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report — Weekly Wrap | April 10, 2026

About this episode

This episode covers the latest updates in the farm and ranch sector, including cattle markets, diesel prices, and the impact of drought and war on agriculture.

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 using-horse market, and we tip the hat to sponsors Lone Star Stockyards in Texas and Atkinson Livestock Market “The Old Reliable” up on Highway 20 in Nebraska. Then it’s grains, inputs, and pain: range-bound corn and beans, wheat trading a war-and-drought risk premium, diesel screaming higher, fertilizer stubbornly expensive, and interest rates that refuse to back off. We hit drought maps, Washington State’s fourth straight drought emergency, and what that means for grass, hay, and stocking rates. War Reel covers the Iran front, Hormuz and Red Sea shipping risk, and the Black Sea grain corridor – not because we like it, but because it’s why your fuel bill and fertilizer freight won’t calm…

Topics covered

• cattle market
• diesel prices
• USDA reports
• grain market
• drought
• war impacts on agriculture

Keywords

• JBS Greeley
• live cattle
• feeder cattle
• cash trade
• slaughter pace
• boxed beef
• corn
• beans
• fertilizer
• interest rates

Sponsors

Lone Star Stockyards, Atkinson Livestock Market

Mentioned in this episode

Products: the Sale Barn Double-Shot, diesel, fertilizer

Books & works: On This Day

Places: Texas, Nebraska, Washington State’s, Iran, Hormuz, Red Sea, Black Sea, Florida, Wildorado, TX

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