Sale reports / Florida / Sumter County Farmers Market / 2019-04-23

Sumter County Farmers Market

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Webster, Florida · Tue, Apr 23
● Final50 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1421
Feeder Cattle receipts
390 head
▼ 107 vs last sale 497▲ 38 vs year ago 352 · +10.8%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
67 head
▼ 14 vs last sale 81▲ 39 vs year ago 28 · +139.3%
Replacement Cattle receipts
47 head
▼ 2 vs last sale 49▲ 18 vs year ago 29 · +62.1%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Slaughter cows were steady, slaughter bulls slightly higher. Feeder steers were steady, feeder bulls and heifers were unevenly steady, and strong. Replacement cows were steady.

Weight class

Bulls · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb bulls averaged $163.05/cwt on 69 head.
Average price
$163.05
69 head · 429 lb average
Value per head Derived
$699
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$21
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 2
$17.23/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+3.12
vs FL average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1423173.5073423
Medium and Large 3389160.4862417thin
Medium and Large 2456156.2771329
One grade step is worth $17.23/cwt here — about $21 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 0–100 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale69 hd
163.05
—
FL average10 barns · 399 hd
159.93
+3.12
A barn can sit above the state average at one weight and below it at another — check the class you actually sell.

Slaughter cattle

By class and quality grade · $/cwt
Cull cows and bulls are graded, not weight-classed — grade is what moves the money here.
ClassGradeDressingAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Bulls—Low1,56581.991,2838thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%High1,30753.797034thin
CowsBoner 80-85%High1,09253.7658712
CowsLean 85-90%Average86845.583962thin

Every lot, as filed

50 lots · USDA AMS · Sumter County Livestock Auction - Webster, FL
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
HeifersMedium and Large 1—310170.98/cwt170.00–172.005302
BullsMedium and Large 3—268191.34/cwt190.00–192.005133
BullsMedium and Large 3—323174.47/cwt170.00–176.005644
BullsMedium and Large 3—385164.05/cwt160.00–168.006326
HeifersMedium and Large 1—362165.31/cwt164.00–168.005983
HeifersMedium and Large 1—688103.32/cwt100.00–110.007113
HeifersMedium and Large 1—537136.77/cwt130.00–140.007346
HeifersMedium and Large 1—425154.86/cwt152.00–158.006588
HeifersMedium and Large 1—483147.08/cwt142.00–150.007108
HeifersMedium and Large 2—325164.97/cwt164.00–166.005362
HeifersMedium and Large 2—490135.05/cwt130.00–140.006622
HeifersMedium and Large 2—360155.26/cwt150.00–158.005593
HeifersMedium and Large 2—278173.78/cwt170.00–175.004834
HeifersMedium and Large 2—423143.93/cwt140.00–148.0060914
HeifersMedium and Large 3—523104.98/cwt100.00–110.005492
HeifersMedium and Large 3—217171.62/cwt170.00–175.003723
HeifersMedium and Large 3—364145.07/cwt144.00–148.005284
HeifersMedium and Large 3—456120.50/cwt120.00–122.005494
SteersMedium and Large 1—362200.41/cwt200.00–202.007255
SteersMedium and Large 1—508158.29/cwt150.00–160.008046
SteersMedium and Large 1—477163.72/cwt162.00–166.007819
SteersMedium and Large 2—318201.49/cwt195.00–205.006413
SteersMedium and Large 2—408179.98/cwt178.00–184.007343
SteersMedium and Large 2—491150.84/cwt150.00–155.007416
SteersMedium and Large 3—268202.62/cwt200.00–205.005434
SteersMedium and Large 3—406173.01/cwt172.00–176.007024
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1—96575.36/cwt74.00–77.007272
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1—69883.96/cwt80.00–88.005862
Bulls——1,35072.53/cwt72.00–73.009792
Bulls——1,81393.23/cwt89.00–98.001,6902
Bulls——1,54981.09/cwt77.00–86.001,2564
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,09860.49/cwt59.00–62.006644
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,06946.57/cwt45.00–49.004984
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,10954.22/cwt50.00–57.006014
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,19058.04/cwt57.00–59.006912
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,42349.54/cwt49.00–50.007052
CowsLean 85-90%—86845.58/cwt43.00–48.003962
BullsMedium and Large 3—69384.98/cwt80.00–90.005892
BullsMedium and Large 3—408151.01/cwt150.00–152.006162
BullsMedium and Large 2—425162.76/cwt160.00–166.0069211
BullsMedium and Large 2—657106.65/cwt100.00–110.007016
BullsMedium and Large 2—278203.13/cwt200.00–205.005655
BullsMedium and Large 2—513142.69/cwt142.00–144.007323
BullsMedium and Large 2—475155.02/cwt154.00–156.007362
BullsMedium and Large 2—370173.84/cwt170.00–178.006432
BullsMedium and Large 1—460159.08/cwt158.00–166.007328
BullsMedium and Large 1—438173.98/cwt170.00–178.007628
BullsMedium and Large 1—278211.22/cwt210.00–214.005873
BullsMedium and Large 1—528153.01/cwt150.00–156.008082
BullsMedium and Large 1—328193.16/cwt190.00–196.006342

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.