Sale reports / Georgia / Greensboro / 2020-03-12

Greensboro

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Greensboro, Georgia · Thu, Mar 12
● Final17 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1948
Feeder Cattle receipts
68 head
38 vs last sale 30 68 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
115 head
48 vs last sale 163 115 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to a week ago: Slaughter cows and bulls unevenly steady, heifer calves mostly steady, feeder heifers lightly tested, bull calves and feeder bulls lightly tested, steer calves and feeder steers lightly tested, replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $116.82/cwt on 10 head.
Average price
$116.82
10 head · 392 lb average
Value per head Derived
$458
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$109
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$21.47/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+0.42
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2273133.993662thin
Medium and Large 3422112.524758thin
One grade step is worth $21.47/cwt here — about −$109 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 sale10 hd
116.82
GA average17 barns · 1,836 hd
116.40
+0.42
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
BullsLow1,54589.781,3879thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%High1,53366.681,0226thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,23260.6674757
CowsLean 85-90%Average1,02648.4949719

Every lot, as filed

17 lots · USDA AMS · Duvall Livestock - Greensboro, GA
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
Bulls1,65279.34/cwt77.00–83.001,3113
BullsMedium and Large 3372124.25/cwt120.00–127.504623
Bulls1,895102.51/cwt102.00–103.001,9432
BullsMedium and Large 1405156.00/cwt156.00–156.006321
Bulls1,28991.25/cwt89.00–93.001,1764
CowsBoner 80-85%1,17155.43/cwt51.00–58.0064920
CowsBreaker 75-80%1,48569.21/cwt68.00–71.001,0284
CowsBoner 80-85%1,34969.55/cwt68.00–75.009386
CowsBreaker 75-80%1,62861.63/cwt60.00–64.001,0032
CowsLean 85-90%1,08250.71/cwt48.00–55.0054911
CowsBoner 80-85%1,24862.31/cwt59.00–66.0077831
CowsLean 85-90%94845.43/cwt43.00–47.004318
HeifersMedium and Large 2273133.99/cwt130.00–137.503662
HeifersMedium and Large 3520105.00/cwt105.00–105.005462
HeifersMedium and Large 3475110.13/cwt107.50–113.005232
HeifersMedium and Large 3270127.50/cwt127.50–127.503441
HeifersMedium and Large 3372114.14/cwt110.00–117.504253

How this sale compares

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