Name: I-40 Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2024-12-10
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2024-12-10

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Monthly Pot Load sale. Demand moderate to good. Next scheduled sale will be on Tuesday January 14, 2025.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $305.80/cwt on 94 head. That ranks 1 of 6 comparable sales and sits −174.50 against this barn's trailing median of $480.30.

Average price

$305.80

94 head · 559 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,708

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−2.59

vs AR average

−18.55 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	559	305.80	1,708	94

Only one grade was reported at this weight, so there is no spread to compute.

This barn's trailing prices 500–600 lb

6 sales

Steers 500–600 lb: high $495.75, low $444.07, median $480.30 across 6 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale94 hd

305.80

—

AR average10 barns · 732 hd

308.39

−2.59

National average185 barns · 29,268 hd

324.35

−18.55

This barn, trailing median6 sales

480.30

−174.50

A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Every lot, as filed

19 lots · USDA AMS · I-40 Livestock Feeder Cattle Pot Load Sale - Ozark, AR

Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.

Class	Grade / description	Weight	Avg wt	Price	Range	Per head	Head
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	400–450	412	280.00/cwt	280.00–280.00	1,154	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	388	300.00/cwt	300.00–300.00	1,164	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	650–700	659	275.00/cwt	275.00–275.00	1,812	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	561	261.00/cwt	254.00–269.00	1,464	54
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	621	254.66/cwt	247.00–264.00	1,581	48
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	521	273.56/cwt	260.00–281.00	1,425	43
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	475	282.99/cwt	265.00–288.00	1,344	33
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	795	245.00/cwt	245.00–245.00	1,948	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	800–850	833	250.00/cwt	250.00–250.00	2,083	64
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	750–800	787	227.00/cwt	227.00–227.00	1,786	9
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	706	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	1,694	77
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	700–750	717	262.00/cwt	262.00–262.00	1,879	13
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	477	318.41/cwt	310.00–325.00	1,519	19
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	600–650	620	287.00/cwt	287.00–287.00	1,779	12
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	400–450	421	362.50/cwt	362.50–362.50	1,526	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	723	256.65/cwt	240.00–258.50	1,856	142
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	571	302.66/cwt	302.00–303.00	1,728	64
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	500–550	532	312.50/cwt	312.50–312.50	1,663	30
Steers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	630	274.28/cwt	272.50–280.00	1,728	13

How this sale compares

Arkansas weighted averages

One sale is one barn on one day. The state ladder is every Arkansas auction USDA reported that week, weighted by head — the fairer test of whether a lot sold well.

Arkansas feeder prices, every weight →Every state and region →

I-40 Livestock Feeder Cattle Pot Load Sale - Ozark, AR

Tue Dec 10, 2024

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Little Rock, AR (LS-LR)

Receipts 675Last week 1,528Year ago 246

Monthly Pot Load sale. Demand moderate to good. Next scheduled sale will be on Tuesday January 14, 2025.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
4	350–400	388	300.00	300.00
4	400–450	412	280.00	280.00
33	450–500	475	265.00–288.00	282.99
43	500–550	521	260.00–281.00	273.56
54	550–600	561	254.00–269.00	261.00
48	600–650	621	247.00–264.00	254.66
77	700–750	706	240.00	240.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
9	750–800	787	227.00	227.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
9	400–450	421	362.50	362.50
30	500–550	532	312.50	312.50
12	600–650	620	287.00	287.00
12	650–700	659	275.00	275.00
13	700–750	717	262.00	262.00
64	800–850	833	250.00	250.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
19	450–500	477	310.00–325.00	318.41
64	550–600	571	302.00–303.00	302.66
13	600–650	630	272.50–280.00	274.28
142	700–750	723	240.00–258.50	256.65
7	750–800	795	245.00	245.00

Head, weight ranges, average weights and price ranges are exactly as USDA AMS filed them — nothing recomputed, nothing rounded — in USDA's own reporting structure. This is RaisedBeef's rendering of that data, not a copy of USDA's document.

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