Sale reports / Georgia / Moultrie / 2019-08-21

Moultrie

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Moultrie, Georgia · Wed, Aug 21
● Final51 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1943
Feeder Cattle receipts
397 head
▲ 257 vs last sale 140▲ 397 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
32 head
▲ 3 vs last sale 29▲ 32 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
6 head
▼ 26 vs last sale 32▲ 6 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to one week ago, slaughter cows and slaughter bulls mostly steady, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls steady, steer calves steady, heifer calves and bull calves steady to 2.00 lower, replacement cows mostly steady.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $109.91/cwt on 106 head.
Average price
$109.91
106 head · 513 lb average
Value per head Derived
$564
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$107
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$7.98/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−3.45
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2495111.3955137
Medium and Large 1551110.8361153
Medium and Large 3430103.4244416thin
One grade step is worth $7.98/cwt here — about $107 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 sale106 hd
109.91
—
GA average15 barns · 1,275 hd
113.36
−3.45
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—Average1,50778.771,1878thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%Average1,41358.208225thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,17854.8064510
CowsLean 85-90%Average85747.684093thin

Every lot, as filed

51 lots · USDA AMS · Moultrie Livestock - Moultrie, GA
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
SteersMedium and Large 1—477139.06/cwt135.00–145.006637
SteersMedium and Large 1—714116.07/cwt115.00–117.0082911
SteersMedium and Large 1—601120.00/cwt120.00–120.0072113
SteersMedium and Large 1—539125.03/cwt120.00–130.0067414
SteersMedium and Large 1—699120.84/cwt120.00–124.0084519
SteersMedium and Large 2—528116.49/cwt115.00–118.006152
SteersMedium and Large 2—628113.01/cwt110.00–116.007102
BullsMedium and Large 1—520117.96/cwt117.00–120.006133
BullsMedium and Large 1—431133.49/cwt130.00–138.005755
BullsMedium and Large 1—386136.75/cwt135.00–140.005287
BullsMedium and Large 1—469128.14/cwt125.00–133.006017
BullsMedium and Large 2—490118.96/cwt115.00–123.005832
BullsMedium and Large 2—292143.31/cwt140.00–145.004183
BullsMedium and Large 2—338137.96/cwt137.00–140.004663
BullsMedium and Large 2—378129.28/cwt125.00–133.004893
BullsMedium and Large 2—682101.68/cwt100.00–103.006933
BullsMedium and Large 2—431121.22/cwt120.00–125.005224
BullsMedium and Large 2—641103.10/cwt100.00–108.006618
BullsMedium and Large 2—578109.54/cwt105.00–113.0063310
BullsMedium and Large 2—526111.76/cwt105.00–115.0058811
BullsMedium and Large 3—52595.92/cwt92.00–100.005042
BullsMedium and Large 3—67893.99/cwt90.00–98.006372
BullsMedium and Large 3—70884.52/cwt82.00–87.005982
BullsMedium and Large 3—312124.36/cwt120.00–128.003883
BullsMedium and Large 3—482102.33/cwt100.00–105.004933
BullsMedium and Large 3—440108.07/cwt102.00–110.004764
HeifersMedium and Large 1—619107.95/cwt105.00–110.006684
HeifersMedium and Large 1—431122.99/cwt121.00–125.005305
HeifersMedium and Large 1—471114.49/cwt110.00–120.0053912
HeifersMedium and Large 1—693100.00/cwt100.00–100.0069312
HeifersMedium and Large 1—530112.67/cwt108.00–115.0059720
HeifersMedium and Large 2—592106.59/cwt102.00–110.0063110
HeifersMedium and Large 2—510106.98/cwt102.00–110.0054611
HeifersMedium and Large 2—423117.43/cwt115.00–120.0049716
HeifersMedium and Large 3—273114.86/cwt110.00–120.003142
HeifersMedium and Large 3—330107.61/cwt105.00–110.003552
HeifersMedium and Large 3—47796.78/cwt90.00–100.004623
HeifersMedium and Large 3—52095.05/cwt90.00–100.004944
HeifersMedium and Large 3—431107.84/cwt102.00–110.004655
SteersMedium and Large 2—573114.02/cwt112.00–115.006533
SteersMedium and Large 2—723100.66/cwt98.00–103.007283
SteersMedium and Large 2—472127.94/cwt123.00–133.006045
SteersMedium and Large 3—67297.36/cwt92.00–100.006543
SteersMedium and Large 3—478115.79/cwt112.00–120.005535
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-2—86558.25/cwt57.00–59.005042
Bulls——1,57383.60/cwt79.00–86.001,3154
Bulls——1,44073.94/cwt69.00–76.001,0654
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,19357.21/cwt56.00–63.006835
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,16352.38/cwt50.00–54.006095
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,41358.20/cwt57.00–60.008225
CowsLean 85-90%—85747.68/cwt47.00–48.004093

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.