Name: I-40 Livestock Auction livestock auction prices — 2025-07-08
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2025-07-08

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Monthly Pot load Sale. Demand good and Buyers active. Offering was mostly average to good in quality. Next scheduled Sale, August 12, 2025.

Weight class

Steers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

500–600 lb steers averaged $365.79/cwt on 39 head. That ranks 1 of 6 comparable sales and sits −114.51 against this barn's trailing median of $480.30.

Average price

$365.79

39 head · 554 lb average

Value per head Derived

$2,025

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

$226

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

$57.08/cwt at this weight

vs the market

+1.63

vs AR average

−13.34 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Medium and Large 1	553	384.08	2,123	24
Medium and Large 1-2	546	340.00	1,856	11thin
Medium and Large 2	580	327.00	1,897	4thin

One grade step is worth $57.08/cwt here — about $226 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 sale39 hd

365.79

—

AR average4 barns · 86 hd

364.16

+1.63

National average153 barns · 8,707 hd

379.13

−13.34

This barn, trailing median6 sales

480.30

−114.51

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

16 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 1-2	550–600	581	317.00/cwt	317.00–317.00	1,842	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	350–400	382	360.00/cwt	360.00–360.00	1,375	3
Steers	Medium and Large 1	750–800	763	319.00/cwt	319.00–319.00	2,434	88
Steers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	600–650	633	348.43/cwt	341.00–363.00	2,206	47
Steers	Medium and Large 2	550–600	580	327.00/cwt	327.00–327.00	1,897	4
Heifers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	670	310.00/cwt	310.00–310.00	2,077	94
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	650–700	687	315.28/cwt	314.00–316.00	2,166	14
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	500–550	546	340.00/cwt	340.00–340.00	1,856	11
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	600–650	615	310.00/cwt	310.00–310.00	1,907	9
Steers	Medium and Large 1-2	400–450	445	380.00/cwt	380.00–380.00	1,691	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	600–650	625	339.25/cwt	339.25–339.25	2,120	61
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	550–600	564	337.00/cwt	337.00–337.00	1,901	5
Heifers	Medium and Large 1Value Added	700–750	734	299.00/cwt	299.00–299.00	2,195	4
Steers	Medium and Large 1	550–600	564	373.00/cwt	373.00–373.00	2,104	17
Steers	Medium and Large 1	500–550	525	411.00/cwt	411.00–411.00	2,158	7
Heifers	Medium and Large 1	600–650	638	330.00/cwt	330.00–330.00	2,105	4

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

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

Receipts 378Last week 227Year ago 534

Monthly Pot load Sale. Demand good and Buyers active. Offering was mostly average to good in quality. Next scheduled Sale, August 12, 2025.

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
3	350–400	382	360.00	360.00
5	550–600	581	317.00	317.00
94	650–700	670	310.00	310.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
5	550–600	564	337.00	337.00
61	600–650	625	339.25	339.25
4	700–750	734	299.00	299.00
Heifers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
4	600–650	638	330.00	330.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
7	500–550	525	411.00	411.00
17	550–600	564	373.00	373.00
88	750–800	763	319.00	319.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1 · Value Added$ per cwt · actual wt
47	600–650	633	341.00–363.00	348.43
Steers — Medium and Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
4	550–600	580	327.00	327.00
Steers — Medium and Large 1-2$ per cwt · actual wt
5	400–450	445	380.00	380.00
11	500–550	546	340.00	340.00
9	600–650	615	310.00	310.00
14	650–700	687	314.00–316.00	315.28

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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