Name: I-40 Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-06-10
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-06-10

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Monthly Pot Load Sale. Demand good to very good for heavier weight cattle. Next scheduled Sale, July, 10, 2025.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $358.74/cwt on 32 head. That ranks 1 of 6 comparable sales and sits −121.56 against this barn's trailing median of $480.30.

Average price

$358.74

32 head · 584 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,093

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$43

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

$19.98/cwt at this weight

vs the market

−1.38

vs AR average

−22.27 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1-2	577	364.98	2,106	22
Medium and Large 2	598	345.00	2,063	10thin

One grade step is worth $19.98/cwt here — about $43 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 sale32 hd

358.74

—

AR average8 barns · 401 hd

360.12

−1.38

National average158 barns · 9,089 hd

381.01

−22.27

This barn, trailing median6 sales

480.30

−121.56

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

10 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
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	800–850	813	305.75/cwt	305.00–306.00	2,486	95
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	600–650	628	337.50/cwt	337.50–337.50	2,120	15
Steers	Medium and Large 2	550–600	598	345.00/cwt	345.00–345.00	2,063	10
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	550–600	577	364.98/cwt	345.00–367.00	2,106	22
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	450–500	465	405.00/cwt	405.00–405.00	1,883	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	750–800	759	291.38/cwt	281.00–295.00	2,212	58
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	600–650	607	306.00/cwt	306.00–306.00	1,857	8
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	850–900	870	262.00/cwt	262.00–262.00	2,279	1
Heifers	Medium and Large 2	400–450	412	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	1,360	2
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	506	338.00/cwt	338.00–338.00	1,710	8

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 Jun 10, 2025

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

Receipts 227Last week 355Year ago 425

Monthly Pot Load Sale. Demand good to very good for heavier weight cattle. Next scheduled Sale, July, 10, 2025.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
15	600–650	628	337.50	337.50
95	800–850	813	305.00–306.00	305.75
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
10	550–600	598	345.00	345.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	450–500	465	405.00	405.00
22	550–600	577	345.00–367.00	364.98
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
8	600–650	607	306.00	306.00
58	750–800	759	281.00–295.00	291.38
1	850–900	870	262.00	262.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
2	400–450	412	330.00	330.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	500–550	506	338.00	338.00

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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