Sale reports / Georgia / Donalsonville / 2021-03-03

Donalsonville

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Donalsonville, Georgia · Wed, Mar 3
● Final28 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1941
Feeder Cattle receipts
163 head
▼ 131 vs last sale 294▼ 6 vs year ago 169 · −3.6%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
24 head
▲ 4 vs last sale 20▼ 5 vs year ago 29 · −17.2%
Replacement Cattle receipts
20 head
▲ 12 vs last sale 8▲ 14 vs year ago 6 · +233.3%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Slaughter cows and bulls steady, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls lightly tested, steer calves steady to 2.00 higher, heifer calves unevenly steady, bull calves steady, replacement cows steady.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $123.77/cwt on 58 head.
Average price
$123.77
58 head · 462 lb average
Value per head Derived
$572
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$120
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$4.75/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−0.56
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2418124.9052218thin
Medium and Large 1531124.2966030
Medium and Large 3335120.1540210thin
One grade step is worth $4.75/cwt here — about $120 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 sale58 hd
123.77
—
GA average15 barns · 1,790 hd
124.33
−0.56
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—Low1,59877.781,2434thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%Average1,35571.079632thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,13069.567866thin
CowsLean 85-90%Average93855.555214thin

Every lot, as filed

28 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
Bulls——1,59877.78/cwt75.00–80.001,2434
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,09567.02/cwt64.00–69.007343
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,16572.09/cwt71.00–74.008403
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,35571.07/cwt69.00–73.009632
CowsLean 85-90%—93855.55/cwt53.00–60.005214
BullsMedium and Large 1—538136.00/cwt135.00–137.007322
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 2-3—1,138943.41/cwt825.00–1,000.0010,7368
HeifersMedium and Large 2—273132.13/cwt130.00–134.003612
HeifersMedium and Large 2—382130.34/cwt130.00–131.004983
HeifersMedium and Large 2—520112.63/cwt110.00–117.005863
SteersMedium and Large 1—468154.50/cwt154.00–155.007232
SteersMedium and Large 1—380170.27/cwt167.00–176.006474
HeifersMedium and Large 3—443107.51/cwt105.00–110.004762
HeifersMedium and Large 3—240127.06/cwt120.00–130.003054
HeifersMedium and Large 1—322143.53/cwt138.00–148.004623
HeifersMedium and Large 1—620111.02/cwt110.00–112.006882
HeifersMedium and Large 2—573110.49/cwt110.00–111.006332
HeifersMedium and Large 2—315131.87/cwt128.00–134.004153
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-3—81061.41/cwt58.00–65.004972
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-3—1,00354.41/cwt43.00–65.005462
HeifersMedium and Large 1—576120.70/cwt119.00–121.006957
SteersMedium and Large 2—258156.04/cwt150.00–160.004033
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-3—823674.49/cwt610.00–750.005,5513
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-3—73057.48/cwt57.00–58.004202
HeifersMedium and Large 1—538123.96/cwt120.00–126.0066718
HeifersMedium and Large 2—437127.68/cwt122.00–130.005585
HeifersMedium and Large 3—376119.55/cwt118.00–122.004504
SteersMedium and Large 1—424169.40/cwt166.00–173.007184

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.