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
BullsAverage1,77577.081,3683thin
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
Bulls1,77577.08/cwt75.00–80.001,3683
CowsBoner 80-85%1,02050.89/cwt50.00–52.005192
BullsMedium and Large 2517112.01/cwt110.00–113.005793
HeifersMedium and Large 2380117.32/cwt115.00–120.004466
HeifersMedium and Large 2332123.27/cwt120.00–125.004093
HeifersMedium and Large 261295.00/cwt94.00–96.005816
BullsMedium and Large 3205142.50/cwt140.00–145.002924
HeifersMedium and Large 348298.30/cwt95.00–104.004746
HeifersMedium and Large 357392.55/cwt91.00–94.005309
BullsMedium and Large 3470107.53/cwt105.00–110.005054
BullsMedium and Large 3365128.33/cwt125.00–130.004683
BullsMedium and Large 3315128.44/cwt125.00–132.004054
BullsMedium and Large 2433131.29/cwt130.00–134.005683
HeifersMedium and Large 362393.02/cwt91.00–94.005803
BullsMedium and Large 360893.49/cwt92.00–95.005684
HeifersMedium and Large 3385107.56/cwt105.00–110.004144
BullsMedium and Large 1455132.33/cwt129.00–134.006023
HeifersMedium and Large 353392.48/cwt92.00–94.004934
HeifersMedium and Large 3417105.00/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.