Name: I-40 Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-04-08
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-04-08

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Monthly Pot Load Sale. Demand moderate to good. Next scheduled sale May 13, 2025

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $333.61/cwt on 38 head. That ranks 1 of 6 comparable sales and sits −146.70 against this barn's trailing median of $480.30.

Average price

$333.61

38 head · 556 lb average

Value per head Derived

$1,855

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−0.84

vs AR average

−20.69 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	556	333.61	1,855	38

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 sale38 hd

333.61

—

AR average10 barns · 170 hd

334.45

−0.84

National average175 barns · 9,187 hd

354.30

−20.69

This barn, trailing median6 sales

480.30

−146.70

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

13 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 1Fleshy	500–550	543	297.00/cwt	297.00–297.00	1,613	14
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2Value Added	600–650	601	284.00/cwt	284.00–284.00	1,707	54
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	500–550	534	314.00/cwt	314.00–314.00	1,677	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	600–650	613	295.00/cwt	295.00–295.00	1,808	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	400–450	434	360.00/cwt	360.00–360.00	1,562	8
Steers	Large 1-2	600–650	607	279.00/cwt	279.00–279.00	1,694	8
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	550–600	570	333.00/cwt	333.00–333.00	1,898	15
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	750–800	790	278.00/cwt	278.00–278.00	2,196	33
Steers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	500–550	547	334.00/cwt	334.00–334.00	1,827	23
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Fleshy	400–450	441	305.00/cwt	305.00–305.00	1,345	6
Steers	Medium and Large 1	700–750	727	290.75/cwt	290.75–290.75	2,114	69
Steers	Large 1-2	450–500	482	317.50/cwt	317.50–317.50	1,530	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	600–650	637	317.22/cwt	317.00–318.00	2,021	88

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 Apr 8, 2025

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

Receipts 355Last week 546Year ago 0

Monthly Pot Load Sale. Demand moderate to good. Next scheduled sale May 13, 2025

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
6	400–450	441	305.00	305.00
14	500–550	543	297.00	297.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
54	600–650	601	284.00	284.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
5	500–550	534	314.00	314.00
15	600–650	613	295.00	295.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Fleshy$ per cwt · actual wt
8	400–450	434	360.00	360.00
23	500–550	547	334.00	334.00
Steers — Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	450–500	482	317.50	317.50
8	600–650	607	279.00	279.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
15	550–600	570	333.00	333.00
88	600–650	637	317.00–318.00	317.22
33	750–800	790	278.00	278.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
69	700–750	727	290.75	290.75

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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