Sale reports / Georgia / Southern Livestock / 2021-01-12

Southern Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Oak Park, Georgia · Tue, Jan 12
● Final36 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1934
Feeder Cattle receipts
295 head
▲ 62 vs last sale 233▼ 89 vs year ago 384 · −23.2%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
70 head
▲ 18 vs last sale 52▼ 26 vs year ago 96 · −27.1%
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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, heifer calves and feeder heifers 2.00 higher, bull calves unevenly steady, feeder bulls 3.00 higher, replacement cows lightly tested.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $108.40/cwt on 78 head.
Average price
$108.40
78 head · 502 lb average
Value per head Derived
$544
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$61
per head · Medium and Large 2 over Medium and Large 3
$10.77/cwt at this weight
vs the market
−6.03
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 2476115.2054823
Medium and Large 1625108.3167616thin
Medium and Large 3467104.4348739
One grade step is worth $10.77/cwt here — about $61 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 sale78 hd
108.40
—
GA average17 barns · 1,259 hd
114.44
−6.03
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—High1,39181.471,13316
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,18458.1668914
CowsLean 85-90%Average1,04547.825009thin

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
Bulls——1,67592.00/cwt92.00–92.001,5411
Bulls——1,23375.40/cwt73.00–77.009304
Bulls——1,42282.72/cwt81.00–86.001,17611
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,25757.78/cwt57.00–61.007268
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,21068.53/cwt68.00–69.008292
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,02653.74/cwt52.00–56.005514
BullsMedium and Large 2—77592.99/cwt92.00–94.007212
BullsMedium and Large 2—323151.60/cwt150.00–155.004903
BullsMedium and Large 2—358154.69/cwt150.00–157.005543
BullsMedium and Large 2—607109.34/cwt108.00–112.006643
BullsMedium and Large 2—683103.63/cwt100.00–106.007085
BullsMedium and Large 2—73797.67/cwt96.00–99.007206
HeifersMedium and Large 2—511109.29/cwt104.00–114.005584
HeifersMedium and Large 2—474115.37/cwt110.00–120.005479
BullsMedium and Large 2—419144.76/cwt142.00–147.006074
BullsMedium and Large 2—520123.09/cwt120.00–126.006404
HeifersMedium and Large 2—575107.97/cwt107.00–109.006214
HeifersMedium and Large 2—390123.71/cwt120.00–130.004826
BullsMedium and Large 3—565108.02/cwt106.00–110.006105
BullsMedium and Large 3—458129.01/cwt127.00–130.005913
HeifersMedium and Large 3—479104.05/cwt100.00–107.004984
HeifersMedium and Large 3—56091.00/cwt90.00–92.005104
BullsMedium and Large 3—523111.20/cwt107.00–115.005825
HeifersMedium and Large 3—62092.98/cwt91.00–94.005764
HeifersMedium and Large 1—611107.25/cwt105.00–112.006554
HeifersMedium and Large 1—76098.01/cwt97.00–99.007452
HeifersMedium and Large 3—319117.08/cwt115.00–120.003738
HeifersMedium and Large 3—52198.86/cwt95.00–104.005158
HeifersMedium and Large 3—68587.50/cwt86.00–89.005992
HeifersMedium and Large 3—386113.14/cwt110.00–117.004379
CowsLean 85-90%—1,10750.02/cwt48.00–54.005545
CowsLean 85-90%—96845.08/cwt43.00–47.004364
BullsMedium and Large 1—360165.69/cwt162.00–170.005963
BullsMedium and Large 1—411159.80/cwt155.00–165.006576
HeifersMedium and Large 1—73097.48/cwt96.00–100.007124
HeifersMedium and Large 1—518119.68/cwt117.00–123.006206

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.