Sale reports / Georgia / Southern Livestock / 2021-02-02

Southern Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Oak Park, Georgia · Tue, Feb 2
● Final28 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1934
Feeder Cattle receipts
197 head
▼ 155 vs last sale 352▼ 238 vs year ago 435 · −54.7%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
106 head
▲ 42 vs last sale 64▲ 39 vs year ago 67 · +58.2%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to a week ago: Slaughter cows 4.00 higher, slaughter bulls 5.00 higher, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls mostly steady, steer calves lightly tested, heifer calves 2.00 higher, bull calves 4.00 higher, replacement cows mostly steady.

Weight class

Heifers · summary 0–100 lb

Weighted average of every reported lot
0–100 lb heifers averaged $123.99/cwt on 40 head.
Average price
$123.99
40 head · 418 lb average
Value per head Derived
$518
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
−$130
per head · Medium and Large 3 over Medium and Large 2
$10.11/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+5.36
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 3299130.903917thin
Medium and Large 1467125.9858811thin
Medium and Large 2431120.7952022
One grade step is worth $10.11/cwt here — about −$130 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 sale40 hd
123.99
—
GA average15 barns · 1,021 hd
118.63
+5.36
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—Average1,67593.631,5686thin
CowsBoner 80-85%High1,26664.7281921
CowsLean 85-90%Average91553.5048910

Every lot, as filed

28 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——1,52288.77/cwt87.00–91.001,3513
Bulls——1,82798.49/cwt97.00–101.001,7993
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,61473.99/cwt71.00–77.001,1944
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,26056.11/cwt53.00–59.007075
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,15265.21/cwt61.00–69.0075112
CowsLean 85-90%—90455.75/cwt50.00–58.005047
BullsMedium and Large 3—262146.75/cwt140.00–150.003843
BullsMedium and Large 3—325144.67/cwt140.00–147.004703
SteersMedium and Large 1—430161.50/cwt160.00–163.006942
BullsMedium and Large 3—583105.40/cwt103.00–108.006145
HeifersMedium and Large 2—373127.04/cwt125.00–129.004744
HeifersMedium and Large 2—513105.40/cwt101.00–110.005415
BullsMedium and Large 2—424141.55/cwt135.00–145.006004
BullsMedium and Large 3—435123.41/cwt120.00–125.005373
BullsMedium and Large 1—307166.01/cwt165.00–168.005103
HeifersMedium and Large 2—615104.54/cwt100.00–109.006432
BullsMedium and Large 3—60796.33/cwt95.00–97.005853
HeifersMedium and Large 1—475124.77/cwt122.00–126.005935
CowsLean 85-90%—94048.24/cwt45.00–50.004533
BullsMedium and Large 1—618110.32/cwt107.00–114.006823
HeifersMedium and Large 3—330125.33/cwt120.00–128.004143
HeifersMedium and Large 3—275135.07/cwt132.00–137.003714
HeifersMedium and Large 1—542118.35/cwt115.00–120.006413
SteersMedium and Large 1—688122.67/cwt122.00–124.008443
HeifersMedium and Large 1—378135.64/cwt133.00–137.005133
BullsMedium and Large 2—305156.00/cwt155.00–158.004763
HeifersMedium and Large 2—320131.81/cwt130.00–135.004225
HeifersMedium and Large 2—432125.68/cwt122.00–128.005436

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.