Sale reports / Georgia / Southern Livestock / 2020-10-20

Southern Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Oak Park, Georgia · Tue, Oct 20
● Final23 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1934
Feeder Cattle receipts
184 head
▼ 172 vs last sale 356▼ 580 vs year ago 764 · −75.9%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
41 head
▼ 18 vs last sale 59▼ 66 vs year ago 107 · −61.7%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to a week ago: Slaughter cows and bulls mostly steady, feeder steers and steer calves lightly tested, feeder bulls and bull calves mostly steady, heifer calves 3.00 lower, feeder heifers 4.00 lower, replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $101.61/cwt on 47 head.
Average price
$101.61
47 head · 490 lb average
Value per head Derived
$498
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$15
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$11.71/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−7.34
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2463109.5850815thin
Medium and Large 350397.8749232
One grade step is worth $11.71/cwt here — about $15 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 sale47 hd
101.61
—
GA average15 barns · 1,007 hd
108.95
−7.34
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—Average1,77577.081,3683thin
CowsBoner 80-85%High1,03551.955384thin
CowsLean 85-90%Low99143.214287thin

Every lot, as filed

23 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
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,14558.00/cwt58.00–58.006641
CowsBoner 80-85%—95548.00/cwt48.00–48.004581
CowsLean 85-90%—91038.92/cwt36.00–42.003542
CowsLean 85-90%—1,02344.93/cwt43.00–46.004605
Bulls——1,77577.08/cwt75.00–80.001,3683
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,02050.89/cwt50.00–52.005192
BullsMedium and Large 2—517112.01/cwt110.00–113.005793
HeifersMedium and Large 2—380117.32/cwt115.00–120.004466
HeifersMedium and Large 2—332123.27/cwt120.00–125.004093
HeifersMedium and Large 2—61295.00/cwt94.00–96.005816
BullsMedium and Large 3—205142.50/cwt140.00–145.002924
HeifersMedium and Large 3—48298.30/cwt95.00–104.004746
HeifersMedium and Large 3—57392.55/cwt91.00–94.005309
BullsMedium and Large 3—470107.53/cwt105.00–110.005054
BullsMedium and Large 3—365128.33/cwt125.00–130.004683
BullsMedium and Large 3—315128.44/cwt125.00–132.004054
BullsMedium and Large 2—433131.29/cwt130.00–134.005683
HeifersMedium and Large 3—62393.02/cwt91.00–94.005803
BullsMedium and Large 3—60893.49/cwt92.00–95.005684
HeifersMedium and Large 3—385107.56/cwt105.00–110.004144
BullsMedium and Large 1—455132.33/cwt129.00–134.006023
HeifersMedium and Large 3—53392.48/cwt92.00–94.004934
HeifersMedium and Large 3—417105.00/cwt100.00–110.004386

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.