Sale reports / Georgia / Southern Livestock / 2019-10-29

Southern Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Oak Park, Georgia · Tue, Oct 29
● Final42 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1934
Feeder Cattle receipts
650 head
114 vs last sale 764 650 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
43 head
64 vs last sale 107 43 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to a week ago: Slaughter cows steady to 2.00 lower, slaughter bulls mostly steady, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls mostly steady, steer calves 2.00 higher, heifer calves steady, bull calves unevenly steady, replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $113.01/cwt on 200 head.
Average price
$113.01
200 head · 542 lb average
Value per head Derived
$612
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$253
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$18.17/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+3.80
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1574116.39668147
Medium and Large 2460104.8848243
Medium and Large 342298.2241410thin
One grade step is worth $18.17/cwt here — about $253 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 sale200 hd
113.01
GA average16 barns · 1,510 hd
109.20
+3.80
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
BullsAverage1,16474.988733thin
CowsBoner 80-85%High1,17148.305656thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low97239.913883thin

Every lot, as filed

42 lots · USDA AMS · Southern Livestock - Oak Park, GA
Nothing removed and nothing rounded — the same lots as the USDA report, with per-head values added.
ClassGrade / descriptionWeightAvg wtPriceRangePer headHead
HeifersMedium and Large 1406118.75/cwt115.00–120.004828
HeifersMedium and Large 1622102.85/cwt101.00–104.006406
BullsMedium and Large 3434111.68/cwt107.00–116.004857
BullsMedium and Large 3478106.85/cwt105.00–109.005116
BullsMedium and Large 3382119.11/cwt117.00–122.004556
BullsMedium and Large 3311128.39/cwt127.00–130.003995
BullsMedium and Large 3518101.72/cwt99.00–104.005274
BullsMedium and Large 2523110.09/cwt105.00–114.0057611
BullsMedium and Large 2617100.91/cwt98.00–106.006239
BullsMedium and Large 2478112.69/cwt110.00–118.005399
BullsMedium and Large 266697.42/cwt95.00–99.006497
BullsMedium and Large 2412121.14/cwt117.00–125.004997
BullsMedium and Large 2379134.40/cwt132.00–136.005097
BullsMedium and Large 271892.05/cwt87.00–95.006613
BullsMedium and Large 2560105.33/cwt104.00–108.005903
BullsMedium and Large 2312133.74/cwt132.00–137.004173
BullsMedium and Large 2267131.28/cwt130.00–132.003513
BullsMedium and Large 1570114.77/cwt113.00–117.006549
BullsMedium and Large 1468125.47/cwt122.00–130.005877
BullsMedium and Large 1413135.09/cwt130.00–140.005584
BullsMedium and Large 1363140.07/cwt137.00–144.005084
HeifersMedium and Large 1569103.49/cwt100.00–106.005898
HeifersMedium and Large 1522112.42/cwt110.00–114.0058720
HeifersMedium and Large 1666100.53/cwt98.00–104.0067020
HeifersMedium and Large 1Value Added577123.00/cwt123.00–123.0071085
HeifersMedium and Large 256097.75/cwt96.00–99.005474
HeifersMedium and Large 2419109.06/cwt106.00–112.004577
HeifersMedium and Large 2366108.17/cwt105.00–112.0039610
HeifersMedium and Large 2470103.48/cwt100.00–107.0048610
HeifersMedium and Large 2519103.26/cwt98.00–107.0053612
HeifersMedium and Large 3319106.65/cwt102.00–110.003405
HeifersMedium and Large 352589.79/cwt88.00–93.004715
SteersMedium and Large 1475135.46/cwt132.00–140.006434
SteersMedium and Large 1512127.18/cwt124.00–129.006515
SteersMedium and Large 1686130.92/cwt125.00–131.0089872
SteersMedium and Large 2569117.11/cwt111.00–120.006666
Bulls1,10580.00/cwt80.00–80.008841
Bulls1,19372.47/cwt70.00–75.008652
CowsBoner 80-85%1,00563.00/cwt63.00–63.006331
CowsBoner 80-85%1,07548.00/cwt48.00–48.005161
CowsBoner 80-85%1,23644.70/cwt40.00–47.005524
CowsLean 85-90%97239.91/cwt37.00–42.003883

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.