Sale reports / Georgia / Moultrie / 2025-03-12

Moultrie

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Moultrie, Georgia · Wed, Mar 12
● Final16 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1943
Feeder Cattle receipts
120 head
30 vs last sale 90 4 vs year ago 116 · +3.4%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
28 head
0 vs last sale 28 12 vs year ago 40 · 30.0%
Replacement Cattle receipts
12 head
8 vs last sale 4 8 vs year ago 4 · +200.0%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Slaughter cows unevenly steady, slaughter bulls sharply higher, steer calves, bull calves, feeder steers, feeder heifers, and feeder bulls lightly tested, heifer calves 5.00 higher, replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 500–600 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
500–600 lb heifers averaged $265.02/cwt on 8 head.
Average price
$265.02
8 head · 524 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,387
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$49
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$16.63/cwt at this weight
vs the market
25.55
vs GA average
49.94 vs national

What quality paid 500–600 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2513277.491,4242thin
Medium and Large 3527260.861,3756thin
One grade step is worth $16.63/cwt here — about $49 a head. Across this sale the premium is widest at 500–600 lb. USDA reports each grade on its own line and never publishes the spread.

How it compared 500–600 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale8 hd
265.02
GA average15 barns · 270 hd
290.57
−25.55
National average179 barns · 17,787 hd
314.96
−49.94
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
BullsAverage1,899176.613,35511
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,098142.521,5644thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%Low1,338137.631,8418thin

Replacement cattle Per head

By class, stage and age
Bred stock and pairs are reported per head, not per hundredweight — these prices are never mixed with the $/cwt figures above.
ClassStageAgeAvg wt$/headHead
Cow-Calf PairsOpenMiddle Aged (5-8 yrs)1,155$2,6254thin

Every lot, as filed

16 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
Bulls1,708173.52/cwt172.00–175.002,9642
CowsBoner 80-85%925150.00/cwt150.00–150.001,3881
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 2-38302,300.00/head2,300.00–2,300.002,3002
HeifersMedium and Large 2500–550513277.49/cwt275.00–280.001,4242
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 1-21,4802,950.00/head2,950.00–2,950.002,9502
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-2705180.00/cwt180.00–180.001,2691
CowsBreaker 75-80%1,338137.63/cwt134.00–141.001,8418
CowsBoner 80-85%1,155140.03/cwt139.00–141.001,6173
Bulls1,770161.09/cwt157.00–165.002,8513
Bulls2,028185.40/cwt182.00–189.003,7606
BullsMedium and Large 1300–350309387.57/cwt380.00–390.001,1984
BullsMedium and Large 1350–400365373.27/cwt370.00–375.001,3623
HeifersMedium and Large 3200–250216350.86/cwt350.00–355.0075813
HeifersMedium and Large 3500–550527260.86/cwt260.00–265.001,3756
HeifersMedium and Large 3400–450425302.47/cwt300.00–305.001,2852
HeifersMedium and Large 3300–350318327.48/cwt325.00–330.001,0412

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.