Sale reports / Georgia / Fitzgerald / 2021-08-16

Fitzgerald

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Replacement Cattle · Fitzgerald, Georgia · Mon, Aug 16
● Final14 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1947
Feeder Cattle receipts
96 head
1 vs last sale 95 115 vs year ago 211 · 54.5%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
15 head
0 vs last sale 15 2 vs year ago 13 · +15.4%
Replacement Cattle receipts
19 head
14 vs last sale 33 15 vs year ago 4 · +375.0%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Slaughter cows mostly steady, Slaughter cows lightly tested, Feeder steers, heifers, and bulls lightly tested, steer calves and heifer calves lightly tested, 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 $139.69/cwt on 24 head.
Average price
$139.69
24 head · 470 lb average
Value per head Derived
$657
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$70
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$13.40/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+6.92
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2474149.747106thin
Medium and Large 3469136.3464018thin
One grade step is worth $13.40/cwt here — about $70 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 sale24 hd
139.69
GA average14 barns · 1,305 hd
132.77
+6.92
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%Average1,23163.947876thin
CowsLean 85-90%Average89453.794814thin

Every lot, as filed

14 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 2313178.19/cwt175.00–185.005583
BullsMedium and Large 2635121.29/cwt120.00–124.007703
BullsMedium and Large 3573122.06/cwt120.00–126.006993
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-31,06856.00/cwt55.00–57.005982
Bred CowsMedium and Large 2-31,44055.00/cwt55.00–55.007921
BullsMedium and Large 3324168.17/cwt165.00–172.005454
Bred CowsMedium and Large 1-21,37268.07/cwt66.00–73.009343
CowsBoner 80-85%1,23465.13/cwt60.00–69.008045
CowsLean 85-90%89453.79/cwt50.00–59.004814
CowsBoner 80-85%1,21558.00/cwt58.00–58.007051
BullsMedium and Large 3518123.95/cwt120.00–128.006425
BullsMedium and Large 3473132.59/cwt130.00–136.006276
HeifersMedium and Large 3460124.89/cwt120.00–130.005744
HeifersMedium and Large 3418132.57/cwt130.00–136.005546

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.