Screwworm, Cattle Floor & Diesel Pain – FFRRR Weekly Wrap (4/24/26)

About this episode

The episode covers the latest updates in agriculture, including market trends, cattle industry news, and rural policy developments.

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, hogs, corn, beans, wheat, diesel, crude); Cattle/Beef (herd at multi-decade lows, Cargill Milwaukee closure, boxed beef inversion 3rd week in a row); Sale Barn Pulse (Joplin's monster run, light receipts at OKC West, Beaver County replacements screaming tight supply into 2027); Inputs/Energy (diesel still a punishing line item, fertilizer ugly with urea feeling the Hormuz war-risk premium); War Reel (tanker seizures, insurance math, and what it does to your fuel bill and freight); Rural Americana (one rural hospital win, one gut-punch closure, plus a broadband bright spot); Policy/Macro (Farm Bill H.R. 7567 amendments, DOJ packer probe, and Rollins' canceled border trip). Lone Star Stockyards…

People in this episode

Host: Matt McKinley

Topics covered

• Agriculture
• Market Analysis
• Cattle Industry
• Energy Prices
• Farm Policy
• Rural Issues

Keywords

• screwworm
• cattle market
• diesel prices
• Farm Bill
• agriculture news
• rural America
• energy costs
• Cargill
• broadband
• policy amendments

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cargill

Places: Douglas, Arizona, Texas, Milwaukee, Joplin, OKC West, Beaver County, Hormuz, Wildorado, Texas

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