Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2019-09-30

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Sep 30
● Final17 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
206 head
19 vs last sale 225 206 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
29 head
11 vs last sale 18 29 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

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

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $114.53/cwt on 57 head.
Average price
$114.53
57 head · 389 lb average
Value per head Derived
$446
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$13
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$14.79/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+9.47
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2354123.0943624
Medium and Large 3415108.3044933
One grade step is worth $14.79/cwt here — about −$13 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 sale57 hd
114.53
GA average16 barns · 1,811 hd
105.05
+9.47
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
BullsLow1,65072.921,2032thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low1,01745.214607thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,17944.265224thin

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%1,08341.05/cwt40.00–45.004454
CowsLean 85-90%93050.75/cwt48.00–52.004723
CowsBoner 80-85%1,14841.35/cwt40.00–44.004753
CowsBoner 80-85%1,27053.00/cwt53.00–53.006731
Bulls1,65072.92/cwt71.00–75.001,2032
HeifersMedium and Large 3476102.15/cwt100.00–108.0048610
HeifersMedium and Large 3434102.93/cwt100.00–110.004477
HeifersMedium and Large 3358111.95/cwt108.00–118.004016
HeifersMedium and Large 3278126.72/cwt124.00–130.003526
HeifersMedium and Large 351899.97/cwt98.00–102.005184
HeifersMedium and Large 2370120.33/cwt118.00–122.004457
HeifersMedium and Large 2291133.96/cwt130.00–138.003907
HeifersMedium and Large 2430112.57/cwt110.00–116.004846
HeifersMedium and Large 2323124.65/cwt120.00–130.004034
BullsMedium and Large 3564100.65/cwt98.00–105.005687
BullsMedium and Large 362594.09/cwt90.00–100.005886
BullsMedium and Large 3328136.15/cwt132.00–140.004474

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.