Sale reports / Georgia / Southern Livestock / 2020-09-29

Southern Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Oak Park, Georgia · Tue, Sep 29
● Final50 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1934
Feeder Cattle receipts
519 head
▼ 174 vs last sale 693▲ 24 vs year ago 495 · +4.8%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
71 head
▲ 24 vs last sale 47▼ 20 vs year ago 91 · −22.0%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to a week ago: Slaughter cows and bulls 6.00 to 8.00 lower, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls mostly steady, bull calves steady to -2.00 lower, steer and bull calves mostly steady, replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $113.63/cwt on 127 head.
Average price
$113.63
127 head · 457 lb average
Value per head Derived
$520
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$200
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$6.01/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+0.94
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1562116.6765619thin
Medium and Large 2464115.3553656
Medium and Large 3411110.6645552
One grade step is worth $6.01/cwt here — about $200 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 sale127 hd
113.63
—
GA average17 barns · 1,583 hd
112.69
+0.94
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—Low1,59073.561,1704thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,25152.996639thin
CowsLean 85-90%Average1,09545.4849812

Every lot, as filed

50 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
SteersMedium and Large 3—365132.47/cwt130.00–135.004844
SteersMedium and Large 3—430119.02/cwt117.00–120.005123
HeifersMedium and Large 2—376124.51/cwt120.00–130.0046812
HeifersMedium and Large 1—617110.40/cwt107.00–113.006817
SteersMedium and Large 1—624124.61/cwt122.00–127.007786
BullsMedium and Large 3—520105.34/cwt103.00–107.005486
SteersMedium and Large 3—473118.01/cwt115.00–120.005585
BullsMedium and Large 3—271137.73/cwt135.00–142.003736
SteersMedium and Large 2—458130.19/cwt126.00–135.005965
BullsMedium and Large 2—476119.80/cwt115.00–124.0057010
HeifersMedium and Large 2—625104.31/cwt103.00–105.006523
Bulls——1,59073.56/cwt71.00–76.001,1704
CowsLean 85-90%—1,13548.51/cwt48.00–49.005514
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,52057.00/cwt57.00–57.008663
BullsMedium and Large 3—421118.58/cwt115.00–124.004997
HeifersMedium and Large 2—466112.03/cwt110.00–114.005229
HeifersMedium and Large 2—564106.01/cwt102.00–109.005988
CowsLean 85-90%—1,07543.97/cwt41.00–46.004738
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,11750.98/cwt48.00–56.005696
SteersMedium and Large 3—630105.98/cwt105.00–107.006684
SteersMedium and Large 2—525124.49/cwt123.00–126.006544
SteersMedium and Large 2—418127.49/cwt125.00–130.005334
BullsMedium and Large 3—316137.70/cwt135.00–142.004354
HeifersMedium and Large 3—52098.96/cwt95.00–105.005155
BullsMedium and Large 1—467128.97/cwt125.00–133.006023
BullsMedium and Large 2—565108.00/cwt106.00–110.006109
BullsMedium and Large 1—427134.19/cwt133.00–135.005735
BullsMedium and Large 1—517125.34/cwt121.00–129.006486
HeifersMedium and Large 2—521109.66/cwt106.00–114.0057112
BullsMedium and Large 3—467108.88/cwt105.00–114.0050810
HeifersMedium and Large 3—423109.35/cwt105.00–113.0046311
SteersMedium and Large 2—564119.97/cwt116.00–125.006778
HeifersMedium and Large 1—655114.50/cwt113.00–116.007504
SteersMedium and Large 1—532128.78/cwt128.00–132.0068510
BullsMedium and Large 2—360146.00/cwt145.00–147.005264
BullsMedium and Large 2—618106.33/cwt104.00–109.006579
BullsMedium and Large 2—677102.00/cwt100.00–104.006916
HeifersMedium and Large 2—319129.84/cwt127.00–135.004144
HeifersMedium and Large 3—327120.77/cwt115.00–125.003956
HeifersMedium and Large 3—370113.82/cwt110.00–118.0042111
HeifersMedium and Large 3—265121.00/cwt120.00–122.003214
SteersMedium and Large 2—717109.19/cwt104.00–114.007835
HeifersMedium and Large 2—423120.09/cwt115.00–125.005088
HeifersMedium and Large 1—360133.97/cwt132.00–136.004824
HeifersMedium and Large 3—470106.41/cwt102.00–109.0050015
BullsMedium and Large 3—373126.22/cwt125.00–130.004718
HeifersMedium and Large 1—575112.50/cwt110.00–114.006474
BullsMedium and Large 2—416129.83/cwt125.00–132.005405
BullsMedium and Large 2—520113.91/cwt111.00–118.0059212
BullsMedium and Large 1—568118.01/cwt117.00–119.006704

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.