Name: I-40 Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-02-11
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-02-11

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Monthly Pot Load Sale. Next months sale is scheduled for Tuesday March 11, 2025. Demand good

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $318.00/cwt on 69 head. That ranks 1 of 6 comparable sales and sits −162.30 against this barn's trailing median of $480.30.

Average price

$318.00

69 head · 585 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,859

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$284

per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 1-2

$45.65/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−0.83

vs AR average

−20.67 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	585	320.65	1,876	65
Medium and Large 1-2	579	275.00	1,592	4thin

One grade step is worth $45.65/cwt here — about $284 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

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 sale69 hd

318.00

—

AR average11 barns · 321 hd

318.84

−0.83

National average155 barns · 9,244 hd

338.67

−20.67

This barn, trailing median6 sales

480.30

−162.30

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

21 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	650–700	693	251.00/cwt	251.00–251.00	1,739	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	360	365.00/cwt	365.00–365.00	1,314	12
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	633	265.00/cwt	265.00–265.00	1,677	19
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	461	320.00/cwt	320.00–320.00	1,475	24
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	600–650	620	281.00/cwt	281.00–281.00	1,742	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	650–700	677	253.50/cwt	253.50–253.50	1,716	67
Steers	Medium and Large 1	450–500	475	345.00/cwt	345.00–345.00	1,639	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	585	320.65/cwt	305.00–331.00	1,876	65
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	727	271.11/cwt	271.00–272.00	1,971	84
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	583	284.11/cwt	280.00–287.00	1,656	65
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	750–800	762	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	1,829	20
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	700–750	714	260.50/cwt	260.50–260.50	1,860	55
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	600–650	631	303.33/cwt	299.00–314.00	1,914	21
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	640	287.00/cwt	287.00–287.00	1,837	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	750–800	759	250.00/cwt	250.00–250.00	1,898	25
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	640	240.00/cwt	240.00–240.00	1,536	5
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	550–600	579	275.00/cwt	275.00–275.00	1,592	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2Fleshy	700–750	716	246.00/cwt	246.00–246.00	1,761	7
Steers	Medium and Large 1	350–400	389	395.00/cwt	395.00–395.00	1,537	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	763	265.37/cwt	245.00–272.75	2,025	183
Steers	Medium and Large 1	800–850	804	254.10/cwt	250.00–259.00	2,043	11

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 Feb 11, 2025

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

Receipts 747Last week 656Year ago 1,304

Monthly Pot Load Sale. Next months sale is scheduled for Tuesday March 11, 2025. Demand good

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
12	350–400	360	365.00	365.00
24	450–500	461	320.00	320.00
65	550–600	583	280.00–287.00	284.11
19	600–650	633	265.00	265.00
8	650–700	693	251.00	251.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
8	600–650	620	281.00	281.00
67	650–700	677	253.50	253.50
55	700–750	714	260.50	260.50
20	750–800	762	240.00	240.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	600–650	640	240.00	240.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	350–400	389	395.00	395.00
22	450–500	475	345.00	345.00
65	550–600	585	305.00–331.00	320.65
84	700–750	727	271.00–272.00	271.11
183	750–800	763	245.00–272.75	265.37
11	800–850	804	250.00–259.00	254.10
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
21	600–650	631	299.00–314.00	303.33
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
6	600–650	640	287.00	287.00
25	750–800	759	250.00	250.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
4	550–600	579	275.00	275.00
7	700–750	716	246.00	246.00

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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