Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2019-08-05

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Aug 5
● Final19 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
125 head
9 vs last sale 134 125 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
12 head
12 vs last sale 24 12 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
15 head
18 vs last sale 33 15 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to last week: Slaughter cows unevenly steady, Slaughter bulls 2.00 lower, Feeder steers, heifers, and bulls lightly steady, steer calves mostly steady, heifer calves and bull calves unevenly steady to 2.00 lower, replacement cows mostly steady.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $119.01/cwt on 20 head.
Average price
$119.01
20 head · 422 lb average
Value per head Derived
$502
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$56
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$21.88/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+3.24
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1402134.335406thin
Medium and Large 3430112.4548414thin
One grade step is worth $21.88/cwt here — about $56 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 sale20 hd
119.01
GA average16 barns · 1,654 hd
115.77
+3.24
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
BullsAverage1,40569.539773thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,23654.576744thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low92843.474034thin

Every lot, as filed

19 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 2369143.94/cwt140.00–148.005317
BullsMedium and Large 3465119.94/cwt118.00–126.005584
HeifersMedium and Large 1425132.05/cwt130.00–134.005612
HeifersMedium and Large 1390135.47/cwt130.00–140.005284
HeifersMedium and Large 3425110.53/cwt106.00–116.004704
HeifersMedium and Large 3374115.66/cwt110.00–120.004335
HeifersMedium and Large 3491110.77/cwt110.00–114.005445
SteersMedium and Large 2363143.96/cwt142.00–146.005232
SteersMedium and Large 2405138.48/cwt137.00–140.005612
SteersMedium and Large 3525123.85/cwt120.00–128.006502
SteersMedium and Large 3473125.24/cwt120.00–128.005923
SteersMedium and Large 3416134.20/cwt130.00–140.005585
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 1-21,265850.00/cwt850.00–850.0010,7532
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 2-31,145708.52/cwt625.00–775.008,1134
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-31,31063.00/cwt63.00–63.008252
Bulls1,72581.00/cwt81.00–81.001,3971
Bulls1,24563.80/cwt62.00–65.007942
CowsBoner 80-85%1,23654.57/cwt50.00–58.006744
CowsLean 85-90%92843.47/cwt42.00–45.004034

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.