Burnin’ Daylight

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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June 5, 2026 44 mins
Happy Friday, Daylight Burners. Jake is out today, so I’m rolling solo through a lighter MLB slate that still gave us plenty to talk about. I’ve got to start with the A’s, because that one hurt. JT Ginn gave Oakland six innings, two hits, one run, and eight punchouts. That is exactly the kind of start you want. The offense did its job too. Shea Langeliers hit an inside-the-park homer and another shot, Tyler Soderstrom went deep, ...
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The New World screwworm is not just another fly. It is a livestock parasite that eats living flesh, nearly broke parts of the cattle business before eradication, and is now back in Central America, Mexico, and pushing hard against U.S. cattle country again. In this Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report, Matt McKinley breaks down what screwworm actually is, why it matters, how bad it got before eradication, how the sterile insect technique...
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Solo Thursday BD Baseball — Jake’s out, I’m running the full slate east‑to‑west, then shutting it down to read about New World screwworm instead of doing the farm and ranch report. We hit every game on the board: Marlins–Nats ruining my over, Tigers absolutely cooking the Rays at the Trop behind Troy Melton’s best start yet and Dillon Dingler’s third homer and ninth RBI of the series, and the White Sox offense dragging the Twins th...
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From Detroit’s bats waking up to the A’s and Rockies stealing headlines, Jake and I walk through a jam-packed slate and preview a loaded day of pitching. Show Notes (concise, from your POV): On this June 3 episode of BD Baseball, I sit down with Jake and run through a full 15-game slate: Tigers crush, Flaherty shoves, and Greene/Perez provide the power we’ve been missing. Gage Jump delivers seven strong in Wrigley as t...
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The board had a full‑blown hissy fit today. Fats dumped, feeders slid, and if you’re glued to the screen you’d think the cattle business just died. Out here in the real world, five‑area cash and the sale barns are still paying up, and the country isn’t buying the panic. I walk through the tape, the BDR Sale Barn Pulse runs, and what that ugly futures‑to‑cash spread really means when you’re hauling cattle instead of clicking button...
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On today’s BD Baseball, Jake and I fire up the June Swoon Watch and take a hard look at the A’s, Cubs, and a few other clubs teetering on that edge between contender and collapse. Jake breaks down the Tigers’ wild 10–9 win over the Rays, Kerry Carpenter’s big return, and why Detroit went from best record in baseball last year to tied for the worst this year. We also dive into the ABS disaster in the A’s–Yankees series, how a frozen...
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On this Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report for Monday, June 1, 2026, I walk through a day where the board got its teeth kicked in and the barn didn’t blink. June live cattle closed around 240, down over 11 bucks on the day, while the 5‑area cash trade is still printing in the mid‑250s, leaving roughly a $16 gap between paper and real cattle headed to a real kill plant. We talk placements, 11.6 million head on feed, almost 2 million head ...
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Solo show today — breaking down every series from the weekend, west to east, AL then NL, and I had to sit here and recap one of the ugliest innings in A's history while also telling you my little league A's got wrecked by the parents in the end-of-season game. It was a full weekend. The real A's gave up 13 runs in the third inning Sunday. Yankees sent 18 batters up, batted through the order twice, Ben Rice hit a double AND a tripl...
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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. Only 1,559 head traded through T...
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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 t...
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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 ...
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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 an...
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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 Cub...
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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 still around 27.6M head (–1% y...
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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 slate: 13 games, every star...
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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 IP, 0 ER, ERA 0.73 (Dodgers ...
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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 Congress who consistently pushed back on ...
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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 Congress who consistently pushed back on ...
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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 — and cash cattle didn't blink at $26...
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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-OT, and the Avalanche/Toy Story con...
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