Sale reports / Georgia / Moultrie / 2021-05-12

Moultrie

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Moultrie, Georgia · Wed, May 12
● Final31 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1943
Feeder Cattle receipts
179 head
▲ 15 vs last sale 164▲ 9 vs year ago 170 · +5.3%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
48 head
▲ 26 vs last sale 22▲ 18 vs year ago 30 · +60.0%
Replacement Cattle receipts
28 head
▲ 11 vs last sale 17▲ 28 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 steady to 4.00 higher, slaughter bulls steady, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls steady, steer calves and heifer calves steady, bull calves steady to 3.00 lower, replacement cows steady.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $123.94/cwt on 53 head.
Average price
$123.94
53 head · 405 lb average
Value per head Derived
$502
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$88
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$13.87/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+4.07
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1437128.2356127
Medium and Large 2354121.7743118thin
Medium and Large 3414114.374738thin
One grade step is worth $13.87/cwt here — about $88 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 sale53 hd
123.94
—
GA average16 barns · 1,310 hd
119.88
+4.07
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—Average1,62487.031,4133thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,06661.8565918
CowsBreaker 75-80%Low1,47960.7789813
CowsLean 85-90%Low93851.254813thin

Every lot, as filed

31 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
Bulls——1,69883.55/cwt83.00–84.001,4192
Bulls——1,47594.00/cwt94.00–94.001,3871
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,49357.54/cwt55.00–62.008599
CowsLean 85-90%—93851.25/cwt50.00–53.004813
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,14467.91/cwt64.00–71.007778
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,00357.00/cwt55.00–61.0057210
BullsMedium and Large 2—275156.54/cwt152.00–160.004304
BullsMedium and Large 3—374141.72/cwt135.00–145.005307
BullsMedium and Large 1—467135.70/cwt130.00–140.006344
BullsMedium and Large 2—532120.10/cwt117.00–123.006392
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-2—1,07664.87/cwt62.00–68.006984
BullsMedium and Large 2—568115.03/cwt112.00–118.006533
BullsMedium and Large 2—620108.02/cwt107.00–110.006703
BullsMedium and Large 3—277142.44/cwt140.00–145.003953
BullsMedium and Large 2—436136.02/cwt130.00–140.005936
HeifersMedium and Large 2—385120.20/cwt115.00–125.004635
HeifersMedium and Large 2—558111.52/cwt110.00–113.006222
HeifersMedium and Large 2—262124.35/cwt120.00–130.003264
BullsMedium and Large 3—338141.32/cwt137.00–145.004786
HeifersMedium and Large 1—362130.92/cwt128.00–135.004747
HeifersMedium and Large 1—513123.42/cwt120.00–125.006337
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 1-2—1,168907.55/cwt825.00–975.0010,6004
HeifersMedium and Large 3—228125.67/cwt122.00–130.002874
HeifersMedium and Large 3—513109.09/cwt105.00–113.005602
HeifersMedium and Large 3—68597.03/cwt95.00–99.006652
SteersMedium and Large 1—521139.10/cwt138.00–141.0072515
HeifersMedium and Large 2—326124.34/cwt120.00–128.004057
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,44668.03/cwt66.00–70.009844
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-2—1,03365.38/cwt61.00–69.006754
HeifersMedium and Large 1—475126.19/cwt122.00–130.005995
HeifersMedium and Large 1—413131.37/cwt128.00–138.005438

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.