Sale reports / Georgia / Southern Livestock / 2020-04-14

Southern Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Oak Park, Georgia · Tue, Apr 14
● Final36 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1934
Feeder Cattle receipts
255 head
▲ 90 vs last sale 165▲ 255 vs year ago 0 · no sale a year ago
Slaughter Cattle receipts
55 head
▼ 30 vs last sale 85▲ 55 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 6.00 higher, slaughter bulls 10.00 higher, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls mostly steady, steer calves 4.00 higher, heifer calves mostly steady, bull calves 8.00 higher, replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Steers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb steers averaged $108.62/cwt on 62 head.
Average price
$108.62
62 head · 676 lb average
Value per head Derived
$735
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$41
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 2
$27.04/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−14.07
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1538129.1269515thin
Medium and Large 2721102.0873647
One grade step is worth $27.04/cwt here — about −$41 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 sale62 hd
108.62
—
GA average9 barns · 404 hd
122.69
−14.07
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—Average1,71495.461,6369thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,31864.9285612
CowsLean 85-90%Low1,08950.325489thin

Every lot, as filed

36 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
BullsMedium and Large 1—565117.98/cwt116.00–120.006672
BullsMedium and Large 1—605111.50/cwt110.00–113.006752
BullsMedium and Large 1—365148.03/cwt147.00–150.005403
BullsMedium and Large 1—420151.32/cwt150.00–152.006363
BullsMedium and Large 1—464136.45/cwt132.00–142.006334
BullsMedium and Large 1—529123.24/cwt122.00–125.006524
HeifersMedium and Large 1—412121.64/cwt120.00–125.005013
SteersMedium and Large 2—480130.98/cwt129.00–134.006293
SteersMedium and Large 2—737100.11/cwt100.00–102.0073844
SteersMedium and Large 1—460139.47/cwt137.00–142.006422
SteersMedium and Large 1—528128.83/cwt125.00–132.006806
SteersMedium and Large 1—569126.42/cwt120.00–130.007197
HeifersMedium and Large 2—480109.73/cwt107.00–112.005274
HeifersMedium and Large 3—380109.43/cwt107.00–112.004162
HeifersMedium and Large 2—67390.43/cwt87.00–94.006092
HeifersMedium and Large 2—366121.80/cwt120.00–125.004464
HeifersMedium and Large 3—47598.35/cwt95.00–102.004672
HeifersMedium and Large 1—238143.61/cwt140.00–147.003422
CowsLean 85-90%—1,05046.14/cwt43.00–48.004844
CowsLean 85-90%—1,12053.67/cwt51.00–56.006015
HeifersMedium and Large 1—465118.00/cwt117.00–120.005493
HeifersMedium and Large 1—607101.99/cwt100.00–104.006193
HeifersMedium and Large 1—378131.02/cwt130.00–132.004956
HeifersMedium and Large 1—66596.88/cwt95.00–97.0064425
BullsMedium and Large 3—280139.37/cwt137.00–142.003902
BullsMedium and Large 3—474115.47/cwt112.00–119.005477
Bulls——1,81597.00/cwt97.00–97.001,7612
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,49765.40/cwt63.00–70.009793
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,27073.29/cwt72.00–76.009314
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,24957.93/cwt56.00–60.007245
Bulls——1,57384.69/cwt83.00–86.001,3323
BullsMedium and Large 2—620103.58/cwt100.00–107.006422
BullsMedium and Large 2—369137.27/cwt135.00–140.005074
Bulls——1,770102.76/cwt100.00–106.001,8194
BullsMedium and Large 2—576109.57/cwt105.00–114.006314
BullsMedium and Large 2—479124.67/cwt120.00–130.005977

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.