Name: Centennial livestock auction prices — 2019-10-07
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-10-07

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last month: Trade activity and demand moderate to good. Dairy feeder steers under 400 lbs traded mostly 7.00 higher and over 400 lbs were sharply higher. Heifers were too lightly tested to trend. The next available report will be Monday, November 4, 2019.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot

0–100 lb heifers averaged $78.00/cwt on 13 head.

Average price

$78.00

13 head · 384 lb average

Value per head Derived

$300

Price × average weight ÷ 100

Grade differential Derived

—

single grade reported

vs the market

−59.55

vs CO average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade

Frame / muscle	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Large 3	384	78.00	300	13thin

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

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only

This sale13 hd

78.00

—

CO average5 barns · 1,993 hd

137.55

−59.55

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

42 lots · USDA AMS · Centennial Livestock Monthly Dairy Feeder Cattle Sale - Fort Collins, CO

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	Large 3	—	384	78.00/cwt	78.00–78.00	300	13
Dairy Heifers	Large 3	—	799	72.00/cwt	72.00–72.00	575	7
Dairy Heifers	Large 3	—	873	70.00/cwt	70.00–70.00	611	7
Dairy Heifers	Large 3	—	394	75.00/cwt	75.00–75.00	296	10
Dairy Heifers	Large 3	—	508	80.61/cwt	80.00–81.00	409	10
Dairy Heifers	Large 3	—	593	81.00/cwt	81.00–81.00	480	12
Dairy Heifers	Large 3Replacement	—	672	87.00/cwt	87.00–87.00	585	8
Dairy Heifers	Large 3-4	—	348	65.00/cwt	65.00–65.00	226	5
Dairy Steers	Large 1	—	727	120.25/cwt	120.25–120.25	874	11
Dairy Steers	Large 1	—	787	120.25/cwt	120.25–120.25	946	19
Dairy Steers	Large 2	—	461	134.00/cwt	134.00–134.00	618	8
Dairy Steers	Large 2	—	674	127.25/cwt	127.25–127.25	858	10
Dairy Steers	Large 2	—	294	156.83/cwt	151.00–162.00	461	13
Dairy Steers	Large 2	—	373	131.04/cwt	122.00–140.00	489	31
Dairy Steers	Large 2	—	412	148.13/cwt	136.00–150.00	610	32
Dairy Steers	Large 2-3	—	292	119.00/cwt	119.00–119.00	347	10
Dairy Steers	Large 2-3	—	312	131.00/cwt	131.00–131.00	409	12
Dairy Steers	Large 3Fancy	—	703	108.00/cwt	108.00–108.00	759	17
Dairy Steers	Large 3Full	—	360	81.00/cwt	81.00–81.00	292	9
Dairy Steers	Large 3Full	—	451	85.00/cwt	85.00–85.00	383	11
Dairy Steers	Large 3	—	952	80.00/cwt	80.00–80.00	762	7
Dairy Steers	Large 3	—	750	104.00/cwt	104.00–104.00	780	13
Dairy Steers	Large 3	—	536	104.00/cwt	104.00–104.00	557	21
Dairy Steers	Large 3	—	334	108.10/cwt	107.00–110.00	361	22
Dairy Steers	Large 3	—	691	102.00/cwt	102.00–102.00	705	26
Dairy Steers	Large 3	—	497	101.63/cwt	100.00–104.00	505	27
Dairy Steers	Large 3	—	411	111.50/cwt	111.50–111.50	458	31
Dairy Steers	Large 3	—	567	105.36/cwt	104.50–106.50	597	42
Dairy Steers	Large 3	—	632	104.81/cwt	104.50–105.50	662	62
Dairy Steers	Large 3	—	278	104.63/cwt	102.50–106.00	291	88
Dairy Steers	Large 3	—	373	107.71/cwt	106.00–113.00	402	157
Dairy Steers	Large 3-4	—	340	94.00/cwt	94.00–94.00	320	1
Dairy Steers	Large 3-4	—	451	90.00/cwt	90.00–90.00	406	9
Dairy Steers	Large 3-4	—	380	91.25/cwt	87.50–95.00	347	24
Dairy Steers	Large 3-4	—	233	91.78/cwt	90.00–98.00	214	25
Dairy Steers	Large 3-4Thin Fleshed	—	700	94.00/cwt	94.00–94.00	658	24
Dairy Steers	Large 3-4Thin Fleshed	—	627	100.00/cwt	100.00–100.00	627	34
Dairy Steers	Large 4	—	214	82.00/cwt	82.00–82.00	175	42
Dairy Steers	Small 3	—	540	58.00/cwt	58.00–58.00	313	4
Dairy Steers	Small 3-4	—	270	67.00/cwt	67.00–67.00	181	5
Dairy Steers	Small 3-4	—	441	41.00/cwt	41.00–41.00	181	6
Dairy Steers	Small 3-4	—	352	50.52/cwt	48.00–58.00	178	16

How this sale compares

Colorado weighted averages

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

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

Centennial Livestock Monthly Dairy Feeder Cattle Sale - Fort Collins, CO

Mon Oct 7, 2019

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Greeley, CO (LS-GL)

Receipts 1,173Last week 1,606Year ago 0

Feeder Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Heifers — Large 3$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	384	78.00	78.00
Dairy Heifers — Large 3$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	799	72.00	72.00
7	—	873	70.00	70.00
10	—	394	75.00	75.00
10	—	508	80.00–81.00	80.61
12	—	593	81.00	81.00
Dairy Heifers — Large 3 · Replacement$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	672	87.00	87.00
Dairy Heifers — Large 3-4$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	348	65.00	65.00
Dairy Steers — Large 1$ per cwt · actual wt
11	—	727	120.25	120.25
19	—	787	120.25	120.25
Dairy Steers — Large 2$ per cwt · actual wt
8	—	461	134.00	134.00
10	—	674	127.25	127.25
13	—	294	151.00–162.00	156.83
31	—	373	122.00–140.00	131.04
32	—	412	136.00–150.00	148.13
Dairy Steers — Large 2-3$ per cwt · actual wt
10	—	292	119.00	119.00
12	—	312	131.00	131.00
Dairy Steers — Large 3 · Fancy$ per cwt · actual wt
17	—	703	108.00	108.00
Dairy Steers — Large 3 · Full$ per cwt · actual wt
9	—	360	81.00	81.00
11	—	451	85.00	85.00
Dairy Steers — Large 3$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	952	80.00	80.00
13	—	750	104.00	104.00
21	—	536	104.00	104.00
22	—	334	107.00–110.00	108.10
26	—	691	102.00	102.00
27	—	497	100.00–104.00	101.63
31	—	411	111.50	111.50
42	—	567	104.50–106.50	105.36
62	—	632	104.50–105.50	104.81
88	—	278	102.50–106.00	104.63
157	—	373	106.00–113.00	107.71
Dairy Steers — Large 3-4$ per cwt · actual wt
1	—	340	94.00	94.00
9	—	451	90.00	90.00
24	—	380	87.50–95.00	91.25
25	—	233	90.00–98.00	91.78
Dairy Steers — Large 3-4 · Thin Fleshed$ per cwt · actual wt
24	—	700	94.00	94.00
34	—	627	100.00	100.00
Dairy Steers — Large 4$ per cwt · actual wt
42	—	214	82.00	82.00
Dairy Steers — Small 3$ per cwt · actual wt
4	—	540	58.00	58.00
Dairy Steers — Small 3-4$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	270	67.00	67.00
6	—	441	41.00	41.00
16	—	352	48.00–58.00	50.52

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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