Sale reports / Georgia / Moultrie / 2021-08-18

Moultrie

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Moultrie, Georgia · Wed, Aug 18
● Final24 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1943
Feeder Cattle receipts
184 head
▼ 79 vs last sale 263▼ 47 vs year ago 231 · −20.3%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
16 head
▼ 11 vs last sale 27▲ 3 vs year ago 13 · +23.1%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to one week ago, slaughter cows steady, slaughter bulls lightly tested, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls steady, steer calves steady to 3.00 lower, heifer calves 2.00 to 4.00 lower, bull calves steady, replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $119.66/cwt on 48 head.
Average price
$119.66
48 head · 468 lb average
Value per head Derived
$560
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$173
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$0.16/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−13.19
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2576119.7969012thin
Medium and Large 3432119.6251736
One grade step is worth $0.16/cwt here — about $173 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 sale48 hd
119.66
—
GA average17 barns · 2,337 hd
132.86
−13.19
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—Average1,59080.001,2721thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%Average1,48871.931,0703thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,12660.906864thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low99051.335085thin

Every lot, as filed

24 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——1,59080.00/cwt80.00–80.001,2721
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,12660.90/cwt57.00–62.006864
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,48871.93/cwt71.00–74.001,0703
CowsLean 85-90%—99051.33/cwt47.00–53.005085
BullsMedium and Large 2—683113.53/cwt112.00–115.007752
HeifersMedium and Large 2—629116.89/cwt112.00–122.007356
HeifersMedium and Large 2—523122.68/cwt120.00–125.006426
BullsMedium and Large 3—310169.92/cwt165.00–175.005272
BullsMedium and Large 3—642111.45/cwt107.00–116.007162
BullsMedium and Large 3—568115.01/cwt110.00–120.006533
BullsMedium and Large 3—529120.14/cwt115.00–125.006366
BullsMedium and Large 3—409151.52/cwt148.00–158.006208
HeifersMedium and Large 3—433117.58/cwt115.00–123.0050914
SteersMedium and Large 3—472141.74/cwt137.00–145.006695
HeifersMedium and Large 3—471116.41/cwt115.00–120.005489
SteersMedium and Large 3—534129.04/cwt123.00–133.006894
SteersMedium and Large 3—419149.53/cwt145.00–153.006275
HeifersMedium and Large 3—370126.59/cwt122.00–132.004684
SteersMedium and Large 2—315165.05/cwt160.00–170.005203
SteersMedium and Large 2—660126.69/cwt125.00–130.008363
BullsMedium and Large 2—285184.92/cwt180.00–190.005273
BullsMedium and Large 2—469135.01/cwt130.00–140.006333
HeifersMedium and Large 3—528113.51/cwt110.00–117.005994
HeifersMedium and Large 3—334130.44/cwt123.00–133.004365

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.