# $255 Cash, 313K Kill — Packers Run the Rope | Friggin' Farm & Ranch Report 5/7/26

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Podcast: [Burnin’ Daylight](https://stenobird.com/podcast/burnin-daylight-17478)
Published: 2026-05-08T02:14:00+00:00
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Thursday, May 7, 2026 — Yerington, NV. Three shows deep into the same story this week. Cash cattle printed $255.02 5-Area live and $399.08 dressed for the week ending May 3rd, but the board's bleeding and the cutout is cracking. Packers bought 72,513 head and ran a 313,000 weekly kill — down 34,133 from same week last year. That's leverage, not competition. In this episode: • Live data off the BDR dashboard — June live cattle 250.45 (-1.30), Aug feeders 366.68 (+0.07), June hogs 99.775, July corn 467.25, July beans 1,191.00, KC HRW wheat 667.25 • 5-Area Weekly Weighted Average breakdown — full steer/heifer live and dressed prints • Boxed beef cutout — Choice 387.58 (-2.04), Select 385.08 (-4.55) • Sale Barn Pulse — OKC West $368.93 on 787-lb cattle, six-market average $545.30 • Diesel up 29 cents week-over-week to $5.640; DAP $682, Urea $549, Potash $398 • Prime Rate 7.75% / Feeder Finance 8.25% — both unchanged • Big Four Packer Probe — Day 4, no filing, the silence is the news. Brooke Rollins, Todd Blanche, Chad Sullivan press conference review • Plains AND Nebraska fire aftermath — Ranger Road, Lavender, 8-Ball, Morrill, Cottonwood, Road 203, Anderson Bridge — over a million acres of cow country burned out, drought index hitting record territory • "Golden Age of Agriculture" rhetoric vs USDA's $50 billion farm income drop — Iowa farmer on CBS, Zippy Duvall at Senate Ag, National Potato Council • Thomas Massie's PRIME Act tucked into the Farm Bill — what to watch • On This Day: Lusitania 1915, Reims surrender 1945, STS-49 first three-person spacewalk, 27th Amendment ratified after 202 years Defensive tape, defensive playbook. Move your ass — we're burnin' daylight. 📬 burnindaylight.substack.com 📊 burnin-daylight-report.vercel.app Learn more about your ad choices. Vis…

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