Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2021-02-08

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Feb 8
● Final10 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
93 head
▼ 40 vs last sale 133▼ 40 vs year ago 133 · −30.1%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
7 head
▲ 3 vs last sale 4▼ 4 vs year ago 11 · −36.4%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Slaughter cows and Slaughter bulls lightly tested, Feeder steers, heifers, and bulls lightly tested, Steer calves and bull calves lightly tested, Heifer calves steady, Replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Bulls · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb bulls averaged $134.61/cwt on 13 head.
Average price
$134.61
13 head · 477 lb average
Value per head Derived
$642
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$202
per head · Medium and Large 3 over Medium and Large 1
$56.68/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+3.42
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 3356150.185355thin
Medium and Large 2475135.346426thin
Medium and Large 178893.507372thin
One grade step is worth $56.68/cwt here — about −$202 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 sale13 hd
134.61
—
GA average16 barns · 971 hd
131.19
+3.42
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—Low1,44567.009682thin

Every lot, as filed

10 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
Bulls——1,44567.00/cwt67.00–67.009682
HeifersMedium and Large 3—383124.12/cwt120.00–128.004753
HeifersMedium and Large 3—430122.93/cwt120.00–126.005292
BullsMedium and Large 3—280161.55/cwt160.00–165.004523
BullsMedium and Large 3—470133.13/cwt130.00–136.006262
HeifersMedium and Large 2—413129.35/cwt124.00–132.005343
HeifersMedium and Large 2—313136.70/cwt130.00–140.004283
BullsMedium and Large 2—677102.38/cwt100.00–107.006933
BullsMedium and Large 2—272168.29/cwt160.00–173.004583
BullsMedium and Large 1—78893.50/cwt92.00–95.007372

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.