Sale reports / Georgia / Southern Livestock / 2020-09-01

Southern Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Oak Park, Georgia · Tue, Sep 1
● Final35 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1934
Feeder Cattle receipts
530 head
219 vs last sale 311 261 vs year ago 269 · +97.0%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
70 head
10 vs last sale 60 8 vs year ago 78 · 10.3%
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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 lightly tested, heifer calves 5.00 lower, bull calves 3.00 lower, replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Bulls · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb bulls averaged $127.33/cwt on 79 head. That ranks 1 of 28 comparable sales and sits 79.47 against this barn's trailing median of $206.80.
Average price
$127.33
79 head · 444 lb average
Value per head Derived
$566
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$137
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$15.97/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+3.22
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1488137.856737thin
Medium and Large 2441130.9857735
Medium and Large 3439121.8953637
One grade step is worth $15.97/cwt here — about $137 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.

This barn's trailing prices 0–100 lb

28 sales
233212190169median 206.8012/1602/2404/2106/1608/04
Bulls 0–100 lb: high $218.83, low $183.05, median $206.80 across 28 sales. Sales under 10 head in this class are excluded, so a thin day cannot swing the median or the ranking.

How it compared 0–100 lb

Same class and week · spot auction only
This sale79 hd
127.33
GA average17 barns · 1,321 hd
124.11
+3.22
This barn, trailing median28 sales
206.80
−79.47
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
BullsAverage1,95591.191,7833thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Low1,30560.9579516
CowsLean 85-90%Low1,07954.9659310

Every lot, as filed

35 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 1725106.66/cwt103.00–109.007733
BullsMedium and Large 1310161.25/cwt160.00–165.005004
BullsMedium and Large 2635106.51/cwt105.00–108.006762
BullsMedium and Large 2468122.79/cwt117.00–127.005753
BullsMedium and Large 2333153.24/cwt151.00–155.005104
BullsMedium and Large 2360141.30/cwt140.00–145.005094
HeifersMedium and Large 3477104.75/cwt101.00–108.0050010
SteersMedium and Large 1715117.00/cwt116.00–118.008373
SteersMedium and Large 1612124.51/cwt119.00–125.0076213
SteersMedium and Large 1597125.84/cwt123.00–126.0075118
SteersMedium and Large 2685107.48/cwt106.00–109.007362
HeifersMedium and Large 2413118.56/cwt116.00–122.004905
HeifersMedium and Large 2474112.38/cwt110.00–115.005335
HeifersMedium and Large 3389114.43/cwt110.00–116.004457
HeifersMedium and Large 3434108.83/cwt105.00–114.004727
HeifersMedium and Large 1525117.70/cwt114.00–118.0061813
HeifersMedium and Large 3530105.48/cwt102.00–109.005598
CowsBoner 80-85%1,15857.78/cwt57.00–59.006696
CowsBoner 80-85%1,39362.85/cwt61.00–65.0087610
CowsLean 85-90%1,10547.00/cwt47.00–47.005191
CowsLean 85-90%1,07655.84/cwt53.00–58.006019
HeifersMedium and Large 1723105.00/cwt104.00–106.007592
HeifersMedium and Large 1661105.19/cwt102.00–110.006955
Bulls2,02392.78/cwt89.00–97.001,8772
BullsMedium and Large 2273160.70/cwt157.00–165.004395
BullsMedium and Large 2419127.95/cwt125.00–133.005365
BullsMedium and Large 2518116.17/cwt115.00–119.006028
BullsMedium and Large 3590106.49/cwt105.00–108.006282
BullsMedium and Large 3333144.76/cwt140.00–147.004826
Bulls1,82088.00/cwt88.00–88.001,6021
BullsMedium and Large 3378133.93/cwt130.00–138.005067
BullsMedium and Large 3474112.91/cwt110.00–116.005358
BullsMedium and Large 3516109.13/cwt106.00–112.005638
BullsMedium and Large 2595113.00/cwt111.00–115.006724
BullsMedium and Large 3419119.07/cwt115.00–123.004996

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.