Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2019-07-29

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Jul 29
● Final24 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
134 head
12 vs last sale 122 134 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
24 head
13 vs last sale 11 24 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
33 head
15 vs last sale 48 33 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

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

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $119.03/cwt on 34 head.
Average price
$119.03
34 head · 430 lb average
Value per head Derived
$512
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$24
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$12.85/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+1.07
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2416125.8452416thin
Medium and Large 3442112.9950018thin
One grade step is worth $12.85/cwt here — about $24 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 sale34 hd
119.03
GA average16 barns · 1,685 hd
117.96
+1.07
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
BullsAverage1,52880.191,2254thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,08257.586237thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low94650.664795thin

Every lot, as filed

24 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
BullsMedium and Large 2425137.71/cwt135.00–140.005856
BullsMedium and Large 2364146.45/cwt142.00–150.005338
BullsMedium and Large 371292.01/cwt90.00–96.006553
BullsMedium and Large 3388134.03/cwt130.00–138.005204
BullsMedium and Large 3508112.44/cwt110.00–118.005715
BullsMedium and Large 3308147.33/cwt144.00–152.004546
HeifersMedium and Large 2315133.44/cwt130.00–137.004204
HeifersMedium and Large 2432124.66/cwt120.00–130.005396
HeifersMedium and Large 2468121.94/cwt120.00–124.005716
HeifersMedium and Large 363891.98/cwt90.00–94.005872
HeifersMedium and Large 3507109.34/cwt108.00–112.005543
HeifersMedium and Large 3378122.05/cwt120.00–124.004616
HeifersMedium and Large 3414112.78/cwt110.00–118.004677
SteersMedium and Large 1613132.02/cwt130.00–136.008093
SteersMedium and Large 2453132.71/cwt130.00–138.006013
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 1-21,340925.00/cwt925.00–925.0012,3952
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 2-3887739.06/cwt700.00–775.006,55510
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-279071.00/cwt71.00–71.005611
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-31,21559.66/cwt59.00–61.007253
Bulls1,87586.00/cwt86.00–86.001,6131
Bulls1,41278.25/cwt74.00–80.001,1053
CowsBoner 80-85%1,13564.56/cwt63.00–67.007332
CowsBoner 80-85%1,06154.79/cwt53.00–56.005815
CowsLean 85-90%94650.66/cwt48.00–53.004795

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.