Sale reports / Georgia / Southern Livestock / 2020-03-31

Southern Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Oak Park, Georgia · Tue, Mar 31
● Final31 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1934
Feeder Cattle receipts
296 head
▲ 110 vs last sale 186▲ 296 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
104 head
▲ 20 vs last sale 84▲ 104 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 and bulls 14.00 to 16.00 lower, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls lightly tested, steer calves mostly steady, heifer and bull calves steady to 5.00 higher, replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $117.43/cwt on 37 head.
Average price
$117.43
37 head · 449 lb average
Value per head Derived
$528
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$96
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$16.28/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−6.11
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1450122.7955220
Medium and Large 2455112.5451213thin
Medium and Large 3428106.514564thin
One grade step is worth $16.28/cwt here — about $96 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 sale37 hd
117.43
—
GA average13 barns · 734 hd
123.54
−6.11
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—Low1,56878.401,2309thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,31354.5771711
CowsLean 85-90%Low1,12343.784916thin

Every lot, as filed

31 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
CowsLean 85-90%—1,12542.73/cwt39.00–45.004815
HeifersMedium and Large 2—470114.36/cwt112.00–116.005373
Bulls——1,45674.13/cwt71.00–77.001,0795
BullsMedium and Large 3—278143.47/cwt140.00–147.003992
BullsMedium and Large 3—423128.36/cwt125.00–132.005432
BullsMedium and Large 3—520104.86/cwt100.00–110.005452
BullsMedium and Large 3—323141.31/cwt137.00–145.004563
BullsMedium and Large 3—375131.48/cwt127.00–137.004933
CowsLean 85-90%—1,11049.00/cwt49.00–49.005441
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,25658.53/cwt56.00–61.007356
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,38249.81/cwt47.00–53.006885
Bulls——1,70983.73/cwt82.00–85.001,4314
HeifersMedium and Large 1—268136.03/cwt135.00–137.003652
HeifersMedium and Large 2—367119.72/cwt117.00–122.004393
HeifersMedium and Large 3—52897.03/cwt95.00–99.005122
HeifersMedium and Large 3—328115.99/cwt115.00–117.003802
HeifersMedium and Large 2—428114.20/cwt110.00–120.004894
HeifersMedium and Large 2—565101.31/cwt100.00–102.005723
SteersMedium and Large 2—587121.34/cwt115.00–125.007123
HeifersMedium and Large 1—418124.66/cwt122.00–127.005216
HeifersMedium and Large 1—466126.40/cwt125.00–128.005895
HeifersMedium and Large 1—577108.00/cwt107.00–109.006233
HeifersMedium and Large 1—625102.42/cwt100.00–105.006402
HeifersMedium and Large 1—318137.48/cwt135.00–140.004372
SteersMedium and Large 1—464148.75/cwt143.00–153.006905
BullsMedium and Large 2—328150.30/cwt147.00–152.004933
BullsMedium and Large 2—465125.98/cwt125.00–127.005862
BullsMedium and Large 1—473140.08/cwt135.00–145.006632
BullsMedium and Large 1—423144.57/cwt142.00–147.006122
BullsMedium and Large 1—368152.55/cwt150.00–155.005612
BullsMedium and Large 1—328165.11/cwt160.00–170.005422

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.