Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2019-06-03

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Jun 3
● Final17 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
117 head
30 vs last sale 147 117 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
26 head
7 vs last sale 19 26 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
15 head
14 vs last sale 29 15 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Slaughter cows 1.00 to 3.00 higher, Slaughter bulls 2.00 higher, Feeder steers, heifers, and bulls lightly tested, steer calves and bull calves lightly tested, heifer calves unevenly steady to 2.00 higher, replacement cows mostly steady.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $122.33/cwt on 32 head.
Average price
$122.33
32 head · 441 lb average
Value per head Derived
$539
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$31
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$12.26/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+0.12
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2425133.445673thin
Medium and Large 3442121.1853629
One grade step is worth $12.26/cwt here — about $31 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 sale32 hd
122.33
GA average15 barns · 1,134 hd
122.20
+0.12
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
BullsAverage1,22577.969552thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,18160.137108thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low79548.973895thin

Every lot, as filed

17 lots · USDA AMS · South Central Livestock - Fitzgerald, GA
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
CowsLean 85-90%80043.67/cwt42.00–47.003493
CowsLean 85-90%78856.93/cwt56.00–58.004492
CowsBoner 80-85%1,14662.01/cwt60.00–66.007116
CowsBoner 80-85%1,28554.48/cwt53.00–56.007002
Bulls1,22577.96/cwt75.00–80.009552
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-31,32156.46/cwt53.00–59.007464
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-31,08561.00/cwt61.00–61.006621
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 2-31,240875.00/cwt875.00–875.0010,8502
HeifersMedium and Large 3473120.38/cwt118.00–124.005697
HeifersMedium and Large 3424125.67/cwt120.00–130.005337
HeifersMedium and Large 3374126.58/cwt120.00–130.004734
HeifersMedium and Large 3293132.52/cwt130.00–135.003884
HeifersMedium and Large 3618101.97/cwt100.00–104.006303
HeifersMedium and Large 367393.83/cwt89.00–99.006312
HeifersMedium and Large 3338130.91/cwt127.00–135.004422
HeifersMedium and Large 2425133.44/cwt130.00–138.005673
BullsMedium and Large 3588117.47/cwt115.00–120.006914

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.