Name: Okeechobee Livestock Auction (Mon) livestock auction prices — 2019-12-23
Creator: RaisedBeef
Published: 2019-12-23

Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Slaughter only sale. Compared to one week ago: Slaughter classes 3.00 to 5.00 higher.

Closed for the holidays 12/24/19 - 1/5/20

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt

Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.

Class	Grade	Dressing	Avg wt	$/cwt	$/head	Head
Bulls	—	High	1,709	79.55	1,360	17
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	Low	1,449	57.06	827	10
Cows	Boner 80-85%	Average	1,183	54.53	645	144
Cows	Lean 85-90%	High	1,002	37.24	373	28

Every lot, as filed

11 lots · USDA AMS · Okeechobee Livestock Auction - Okeechobee, FL (Mon)

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
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,026	40.36/cwt	38.00–42.00	414	13
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	1,007	35.35/cwt	33.00–37.00	356	12
Cows	Lean 85-90%	—	882	31.28/cwt	31.00–32.00	276	3
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,515	52.78/cwt	52.00–53.00	800	5
Cows	Breaker 75-80%	—	1,382	61.34/cwt	60.00–63.00	848	5
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,226	55.59/cwt	54.00–58.00	682	85
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,104	51.86/cwt	49.00–53.00	573	51
Cows	Boner 80-85%	—	1,234	60.30/cwt	59.00–63.00	744	8
Bulls	—	—	1,831	83.19/cwt	81.00–85.00	1,523	7
Bulls	—	—	1,697	78.83/cwt	76.00–80.00	1,338	6
Bulls	—	—	1,515	74.28/cwt	74.00–75.00	1,125	4

How this sale compares

Florida weighted averages

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

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Okeechobee Livestock Auction - Okeechobee, FL (Mon)

Mon Dec 23, 2019

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News · Federal-State Market News Service, Tallahassee, FL (LS-OR)

Receipts 257Last week 167Year ago 0

Slaughter only sale. Compared to one week ago: Slaughter classes 3.00 to 5.00 higher.

Closed for the holidays 12/24/19 - 1/5/20

Slaughter Cattle

As reported

Head	Wt range	Avg wt	Price range	Avg price
Cows — Lean 85-90%$ per cwt · actual wt
13	—	1,026	38.00–42.00	40.36
12	—	1,007	33.00–37.00	35.35
3	—	882	31.00–32.00	31.28
Cows — Breaker 75-80%$ per cwt · actual wt
5	—	1,515	52.00–53.00	52.78
5	—	1,382	60.00–63.00	61.34
Cows — Boner 80-85%$ per cwt · actual wt
85	—	1,226	54.00–58.00	55.59
51	—	1,104	49.00–53.00	51.86
8	—	1,234	59.00–63.00	60.30
Bulls$ per cwt · actual wt
7	—	1,831	81.00–85.00	83.19
6	—	1,697	76.00–80.00	78.83
4	—	1,515	74.00–75.00	74.28

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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