# Farm Bill Passes, Cash Cattle Smash Records — Friggin’ Farm & Ranch Report (05/01/26)

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Podcast: [Burnin’ Daylight](https://stenobird.com/podcast/burnin-daylight-17478)
Published: 2026-05-02T00:55:00+00:00
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## Resource

Friday, May 1, 2026 — two days folded into one. We didn’t get a Thursday tape out, but the news sure as hell didn’t slow down for us. Here’s what moved while you were doctoring calves and fixing fence: Farm Bill H.R. 7567 PASSES the House 224–200, and the pesticide preemption “Luna 28” amendment gets STRUCK on the floor 280–142. The chemical lobby took a bipartisan ass‑kicking, and producer right‑to‑sue stays alive at the state level. E15 year‑round gets pulled out of the Farm Bill and bumped to a standalone vote on May 13. Corn and ethanol boys have to win it on its own merits now. Cash cattle blow the doors off: five‑area weekly average hits 254.58 on 24,289 head Thursday, with late clean‑up at 256 live and 405 dressed — a new record, up 6.20 over last week’s 248.38. Board took a breather, cash did the heavy lifting. June live cattle settles 252.75 Friday, down 2.50 over the two‑day stretch. May feeders hang around 372.50 and the CME Feeder Index prints 372.47. Lean hogs June get worked, off 2.47 across the fold. UAE officially walks out of OPEC and OPEC‑plus — first time a top‑3 exporter has left — and WTI still drops 4.89 in 48 hours as the Strait of Hormuz stays effectively closed and sea‑mine risk keeps a choke collar on exports. USDA confirms New World Screwworm in Nuevo León, Mexico, now just 62 miles from the Texas border — about 20 miles closer than the April 10 detection we’ve been tracking. APHIS shifts sterile fly dispersal into a 50‑mile polygon inside Texas along the Tamaulipas line. This is the closest the parasite’s been to U.S. cattle since eradication in 1966. SDRP deadline gets pushed: Thursday was supposed to be last call, but USDA extends Stage 1 and Stage 2 out to August 12, 2026 after paying 6.7 billion of the 16‑billion‑dollar pot and bumping S…

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