Sale reports / Georgia / Donalsonville / 2019-05-29

Donalsonville

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Donalsonville, Georgia · Wed, May 29
● Final33 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1941
Feeder Cattle receipts
242 head
▼ 48 vs last sale 290▲ 242 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
31 head
▼ 24 vs last sale 55▲ 31 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
6 head
▼ 14 vs last sale 20▲ 6 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

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

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $128.73/cwt on 96 head.
Average price
$128.73
96 head · 455 lb average
Value per head Derived
$586
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$214
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$10.64/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+5.36
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1476132.2862960
Medium and Large 2441123.0854329
Medium and Large 3341121.644157thin
One grade step is worth $10.64/cwt here — about $214 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 sale96 hd
128.73
—
GA average15 barns · 1,107 hd
123.36
+5.36
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—Low1,40872.501,0202thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,24749.6862012
CowsLean 85-90%Low1,00139.453955thin

Every lot, as filed

33 lots · USDA AMS · Seminole Livestock Exchange - Donalsonville, GA
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-2—1,17551.86/cwt50.00–54.006092
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-2—1,20555.36/cwt52.00–59.006674
Bulls——1,27070.00/cwt70.00–70.008891
Bulls——1,54575.00/cwt75.00–75.001,1591
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,19845.22/cwt41.00–48.005426
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,29654.14/cwt51.00–58.007026
CowsLean 85-90%—1,00139.45/cwt35.00–42.003955
BullsMedium and Large 1—458145.99/cwt145.00–148.006693
BullsMedium and Large 1—426147.37/cwt146.00–148.006288
BullsMedium and Large 2—493137.51/cwt135.00–140.006782
BullsMedium and Large 2—556120.59/cwt119.00–124.006705
BullsMedium and Large 2—325149.54/cwt146.00–154.004867
BullsMedium and Large 3—393131.40/cwt130.00–135.005165
BullsMedium and Large 3—483120.84/cwt120.00–125.005846
BullsMedium and Large 3—440120.86/cwt120.00–126.005327
HeifersMedium and Large 1—369135.37/cwt134.00–140.005009
HeifersMedium and Large 1—475133.31/cwt130.00–134.0063310
HeifersMedium and Large 1—587119.08/cwt119.00–120.0069912
HeifersMedium and Large 1—513130.79/cwt130.00–131.0067114
HeifersMedium and Large 1—416141.69/cwt139.00–144.0058915
HeifersMedium and Large 2—275133.78/cwt130.00–138.003682
HeifersMedium and Large 2—575113.03/cwt110.00–116.006502
HeifersMedium and Large 2—493122.68/cwt120.00–125.006053
HeifersMedium and Large 2—514121.30/cwt120.00–124.006233
HeifersMedium and Large 2—618111.33/cwt110.00–114.006883
HeifersMedium and Large 2—330136.61/cwt134.00–139.004514
HeifersMedium and Large 2—427123.91/cwt120.00–130.005295
HeifersMedium and Large 2—395120.55/cwt120.00–124.004767
HeifersMedium and Large 3—365117.00/cwt111.00–120.004273
HeifersMedium and Large 3—323125.12/cwt120.00–130.004044
SteersMedium and Large 1—384152.51/cwt150.00–157.005868
SteersMedium and Large 1—630138.89/cwt135.00–140.008759
SteersMedium and Large 1—577139.77/cwt136.00–145.0080613

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.