Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2020-11-09

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Nov 9
● Final29 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
118 head
110 vs last sale 8 28 vs year ago 146 · 19.2%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
23 head
95 vs last sale 118 4 vs year ago 19 · +21.1%
Replacement Cattle receipts
95 head
86 vs last sale 9 79 vs year ago 16 · +493.8%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Slaughter cows and slaughter bulls unevenly steady, Feeder steers, heifers, and bulls mostly steady, Steer calves lightly tested, Heifer calves, and bull calves steady to 2.00 higher, Replacement cows 2.00 higher.

Weight class

Bulls · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb bulls averaged $124.17/cwt on 46 head.
Average price
$124.17
46 head · 433 lb average
Value per head Derived
$537
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$89
per head · Medium and Large 3 over Medium and Large 2
$10.82/cwt at this weight
vs the market
0.85
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 3403126.9951134
Medium and Large 2517116.1760112thin
One grade step is worth $10.82/cwt here — about −$89 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 sale46 hd
124.17
GA average15 barns · 1,311 hd
125.02
−0.85
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
BullsAverage1,45777.911,1353thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,05852.3555410
CowsLean 85-90%Average1,02742.974419thin

Every lot, as filed

29 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
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-296573.00/cwt73.00–73.007041
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-21,08470.97/cwt66.00–77.007698
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-21,03570.74/cwt64.00–76.007327
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-31,12263.30/cwt62.00–65.007103
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-31,00054.81/cwt50.00–60.005483
BullsMedium and Large 2461120.26/cwt117.00–122.005544
HeifersMedium and Large 2424119.65/cwt118.00–122.005075
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 1-21,2151,001.29/cwt900.00–1,225.0012,16628
Cow-Calf PairsMedium and Large 2-31,145827.81/cwt700.00–875.009,4788
BullsMedium and Large 3425122.41/cwt120.00–125.005204
BullsMedium and Large 3467114.31/cwt108.00–118.005346
HeifersMedium and Large 1425121.76/cwt120.00–125.005174
BullsMedium and Large 2602110.33/cwt109.00–112.006643
BullsMedium and Large 3519105.45/cwt100.00–110.005474
BullsMedium and Large 2511116.39/cwt110.00–120.005955
BullsMedium and Large 3381133.52/cwt130.00–138.005095
HeifersMedium and Large 2523110.73/cwt109.00–112.005794
HeifersMedium and Large 3431110.47/cwt108.00–115.004767
BullsMedium and Large 3605100.99/cwt100.00–102.006112
BullsMedium and Large 3286146.39/cwt142.00–152.004194
HeifersMedium and Large 3368113.92/cwt110.00–118.004194
CowsBoner 80-85%1,02654.12/cwt50.00–57.005558
BullsMedium and Large 3317140.58/cwt138.00–145.004469
CowsLean 85-90%1,03645.90/cwt44.00–48.004766
Bulls1,55581.87/cwt80.00–83.001,2732
CowsLean 85-90%1,01037.10/cwt35.00–38.003753
CowsBoner 80-85%1,18545.27/cwt42.00–48.005362
Bulls1,26070.00/cwt70.00–70.008821
HeifersMedium and Large 3490105.39/cwt100.00–108.005163

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.