Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2020-02-17

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Feb 17
● Final23 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
108 head
25 vs last sale 133 108 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
15 head
4 vs last sale 11 15 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
14 head
0 vs last sale 14 14 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

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

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $134.83/cwt on 38 head.
Average price
$134.83
38 head · 354 lb average
Value per head Derived
$478
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$4
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$16.36/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+5.69
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2337140.8547424
Medium and Large 3384124.5047814thin
One grade step is worth $16.36/cwt here — about −$4 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 sale38 hd
134.83
GA average15 barns · 1,100 hd
129.14
+5.69
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
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,48259.718853thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low95544.094216thin

Every lot, as filed

23 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 2353162.48/cwt160.00–165.005744
BullsMedium and Large 2315164.67/cwt160.00–167.005195
BullsMedium and Large 3278162.66/cwt160.00–165.004524
CowsBoner 80-85%1,36053.00/cwt53.00–53.007211
CowsBoner 80-85%1,54363.07/cwt61.00–65.009732
CowsLean 85-90%95544.09/cwt40.00–46.004216
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 2-3900875.00/cwt875.00–875.007,8752
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-288783.20/cwt81.00–86.007383
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-21,04875.45/cwt74.00–77.007912
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-386563.00/cwt63.00–63.005451
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-389059.00/cwt59.00–59.005251
HeifersMedium and Large 3466115.92/cwt110.00–120.005405
SteersMedium and Large 2615132.30/cwt130.00–135.008147
SteersMedium and Large 2663124.73/cwt120.00–130.008278
SteersMedium and Large 3417138.62/cwt136.00–144.005783
SteersMedium and Large 1717128.33/cwt125.00–130.009203
SteersMedium and Large 2582138.41/cwt135.00–140.008063
HeifersMedium and Large 2375137.70/cwt134.00–140.005165
HeifersMedium and Large 2406132.36/cwt130.00–136.005375
HeifersMedium and Large 2276146.98/cwt144.00–150.004067
HeifersMedium and Large 2321143.04/cwt140.00–148.004597
HeifersMedium and Large 3370125.27/cwt120.00–130.004634
HeifersMedium and Large 3314132.45/cwt130.00–136.004165

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.