Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2020-01-13

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Jan 13
● Final20 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
96 head
▼ 25 vs last sale 121▲ 96 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
13 head
▼ 17 vs last sale 30▲ 13 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
12 head
▲ 8 vs last sale 4▲ 12 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 1.00 higher, steer calves steady, heifer calves and bull calves 2.00 to 4.00 higher, replacement cows mostly steady.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $125.96/cwt on 36 head.
Average price
$125.96
36 head · 437 lb average
Value per head Derived
$550
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$144
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$18.58/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+2.00
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1475136.046464thin
Medium and Large 2434127.9955622
Medium and Large 3428117.4650210thin
One grade step is worth $18.58/cwt here — about $144 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 sale36 hd
125.96
—
GA average16 barns · 1,842 hd
123.96
+2.00
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
Bulls—Low1,58573.001,1571thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,33249.606613thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low74545.003352thin

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
BullsMedium and Large 2—260174.15/cwt170.00–178.004534
BullsMedium and Large 2—386158.03/cwt155.00–160.006105
BullsMedium and Large 2—418142.73/cwt138.00–148.005976
BullsMedium and Large 2—486142.82/cwt140.00–148.006947
BullsMedium and Large 3—428142.67/cwt138.00–148.006119
Bulls——1,58573.00/cwt73.00–73.001,1571
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 2-3—870625.00/cwt625.00–625.005,4382
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-3—1,38055.36/cwt54.00–57.007644
HeifersMedium and Large 2—487122.02/cwt118.00–128.005945
HeifersMedium and Large 2—524120.60/cwt118.00–125.006326
HeifersMedium and Large 2—381133.39/cwt130.00–140.005087
SteersMedium and Large 2—668127.66/cwt124.00–130.008537
SteersMedium and Large 3—470134.95/cwt130.00–140.006344
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 1-2—965850.00/cwt850.00–850.008,2032
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,33249.60/cwt46.00–53.006613
CowsLean 85-90%—74545.00/cwt45.00–45.003352
HeifersMedium and Large 1—475136.04/cwt132.00–140.006464
HeifersMedium and Large 3—363123.31/cwt120.00–128.004485
HeifersMedium and Large 3—492111.61/cwt110.00–114.005495
HeifersMedium and Large 2—328137.11/cwt134.00–140.004504

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.