Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2019-10-14

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Oct 14
● Final20 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
264 head
63 vs last sale 201 264 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
30 head
18 vs last sale 12 30 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
10 head
10 vs last sale 0 10 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

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

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $112.21/cwt on 63 head.
Average price
$112.21
63 head · 387 lb average
Value per head Derived
$434
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$83
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$18.84/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+6.67
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1384125.354817thin
Medium and Large 2403115.2646426
Medium and Large 3374106.5139930
One grade step is worth $18.84/cwt here — about $83 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 sale63 hd
112.21
GA average16 barns · 1,428 hd
105.54
+6.67
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
BullsLow1,59865.771,0512thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,20948.105814thin
CowsLean 85-90%Average98944.674428thin

Every lot, as filed

20 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%97746.87/cwt43.00–49.004585
CowsLean 85-90%1,00841.01/cwt40.00–42.004133
CowsBoner 80-85%1,10546.80/cwt44.00–48.005173
CowsBoner 80-85%1,52052.00/cwt52.00–52.007901
Bulls1,59865.77/cwt63.00–69.001,0512
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 2-31,080600.00/cwt600.00–600.006,4802
HeifersMedium and Large 3365104.29/cwt100.00–110.0038113
HeifersMedium and Large 3338110.62/cwt108.00–116.003749
HeifersMedium and Large 3430105.49/cwt100.00–110.004548
HeifersMedium and Large 2378113.86/cwt110.00–118.004309
HeifersMedium and Large 2329124.66/cwt120.00–128.004107
HeifersMedium and Large 2531108.19/cwt107.00–110.005745
HeifersMedium and Large 2422111.67/cwt110.00–114.004715
HeifersMedium and Large 1384125.35/cwt122.00–130.004817
BullsMedium and Large 3424124.90/cwt120.00–128.005309
BullsMedium and Large 3363129.62/cwt125.00–132.004719
BullsMedium and Large 3306136.33/cwt130.00–140.004178
BullsMedium and Large 2565107.70/cwt105.00–112.006099
BullsMedium and Large 2381137.51/cwt134.00–140.005247
BullsMedium and Large 2416129.24/cwt125.00–132.005385

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.