Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2020-08-31

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Aug 31
● Final28 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
301 head
28 vs last sale 329 301 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
22 head
5 vs last sale 27 22 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Replacement Cattle receipts
34 head
24 vs last sale 10 34 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

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

Weight class

Bulls · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb bulls averaged $127.16/cwt on 81 head.
Average price
$127.16
81 head · 482 lb average
Value per head Derived
$612
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$25
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$16.75/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+2.40
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2454137.9162729
Medium and Large 3497121.1660252
One grade step is worth $16.75/cwt here — about $25 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 sale81 hd
127.16
GA average17 barns · 1,404 hd
124.76
+2.40
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
BullsAverage1,54981.901,2683thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,16061.877186thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low74046.003401thin

Every lot, as filed

28 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 2472134.68/cwt130.00–138.006365
BullsMedium and Large 2523127.90/cwt125.00–132.006697
BullsMedium and Large 2421142.99/cwt140.00–148.0060217
BullsMedium and Large 3415132.89/cwt130.00–136.005514
BullsMedium and Large 3615105.12/cwt102.00–110.006465
BullsMedium and Large 3460124.54/cwt120.00–130.005737
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-275077.00/cwt77.00–77.005782
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-21,08873.08/cwt70.00–75.007956
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-31,24060.04/cwt59.00–61.007444
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-31,29061.00/cwt61.00–61.007872
HeifersMedium and Large 3471111.71/cwt108.00–117.0052611
HeifersMedium and Large 2424128.36/cwt125.00–133.005445
HeifersMedium and Large 2582113.57/cwt113.00–118.006619
HeifersMedium and Large 2628105.51/cwt100.00–108.0066311
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 1-21,038902.85/cwt825.00–950.009,3726
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 2-31,230715.24/cwt675.00–750.008,7974
CowsBoner 80-85%1,12563.85/cwt61.00–66.007184
CowsLean 85-90%74046.00/cwt46.00–46.003401
HeifersMedium and Large 2482121.45/cwt120.00–130.0058514
HeifersMedium and Large 3388122.98/cwt120.00–126.004774
HeifersMedium and Large 3585106.58/cwt102.00–108.006234
HeifersMedium and Large 3417121.40/cwt116.00–126.005067
BullsMedium and Large 3566110.02/cwt108.00–112.006237
BullsMedium and Large 3371143.12/cwt140.00–146.005319
BullsMedium and Large 3529115.67/cwt110.00–118.0061220
Bulls1,61087.00/cwt87.00–87.001,4011
Bulls1,51879.35/cwt76.00–82.001,2052
CowsBoner 80-85%1,23057.90/cwt57.00–59.007122

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.