Sale reports / Georgia / Moultrie / 2019-10-02

Moultrie

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Moultrie, Georgia · Wed, Oct 2
● Final25 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1943
Feeder Cattle receipts
149 head
75 vs last sale 224 149 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
63 head
53 vs last sale 10 63 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
4 head
12 vs last sale 16 4 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 mostly steady, slaughter bulls lightly tested, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls lightly tested, steer calves steady, heifer calves steady to 2.00 higher, bull calves steady to 5.00 higher, replacement cows steady.

Weight class

Bulls · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb bulls averaged $125.31/cwt on 30 head.
Average price
$125.31
30 head · 419 lb average
Value per head Derived
$525
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$6
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$45.67/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+11.64
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1376142.2453511thin
Medium and Large 2383126.5548412thin
Medium and Large 354796.575297thin
One grade step is worth $45.67/cwt here — about $6 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 sale30 hd
125.31
GA average16 barns · 1,439 hd
113.67
+11.64
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
CowsBreaker 75-80%Low1,52846.7871531
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,13746.0252315
CowsLean 85-90%Low1,05934.813695thin

Every lot, as filed

25 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
BullsMedium and Large 1280160.00/cwt160.00–160.004481
BullsMedium and Large 1360143.00/cwt143.00–143.005152
BullsMedium and Large 1410140.06/cwt135.00–145.005742
BullsMedium and Large 1312152.52/cwt148.00–158.004763
BullsMedium and Large 1460127.00/cwt125.00–128.005843
BullsMedium and Large 2390124.29/cwt120.00–128.004853
BullsMedium and Large 2314131.46/cwt128.00–138.004134
BullsMedium and Large 2433123.97/cwt120.00–128.005375
BullsMedium and Large 3488105.94/cwt102.00–110.005172
BullsMedium and Large 362588.56/cwt87.00–90.005542
BullsMedium and Large 353595.67/cwt92.00–100.005123
HeifersMedium and Large 2369110.46/cwt105.00–113.004083
HeifersMedium and Large 2431109.25/cwt105.00–113.004713
HeifersMedium and Large 353889.93/cwt85.00–95.004842
SteersMedium and Large 2727113.15/cwt108.00–118.008232
SteersMedium and Large 2423123.93/cwt120.00–128.005244
SteersMedium and Large 3428112.43/cwt110.00–115.004812
SteersMedium and Large 3590105.48/cwt103.00–108.006222
SteersMedium and Large 3541110.40/cwt105.00–115.005975
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 2-31,075750.00/cwt750.00–750.008,0632
CowsBoner 80-85%1,12850.77/cwt48.00–55.005735
CowsBoner 80-85%1,14143.65/cwt40.00–47.0049810
CowsBreaker 75-80%1,51944.55/cwt40.00–46.0067715
CowsBreaker 75-80%1,53648.88/cwt47.00–54.0075116
CowsLean 85-90%1,05934.81/cwt32.00–38.003695

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.