Sale reports / Georgia / Southern Livestock / 2023-10-31

Southern Livestock

Feeder Cattle · Slaughter Cattle · Oak Park, Georgia · Tue, Oct 31
● Final42 lots reportedUSDA AMS · slug 1934
Feeder Cattle receipts
652 head
▼ 24 vs last sale 676▼ 76 vs year ago 728 · −10.4%
Slaughter Cattle receipts
192 head
▲ 17 vs last sale 175▲ 51 vs year ago 141 · +36.2%
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Reporter comment USDA

As filed

Compared to a week ago: Slaughter cows and bulls mostly steady, feeder steers, heifers, and bulls mostly steady, steer and bull calves 3.00 higher, heifer 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 $214.11/cwt on 96 head.
Average price
$214.11
96 head · 472 lb average
Value per head Derived
$1,010
Price × average weight ÷ 100
Grade differential Derived
$305
per head · Medium and Large 1 over Medium and Large 3
$13.50/cwt at this weight
vs the market
+18.39
vs GA average

What quality paid 0–100 lb

Frame and muscle grade
Frame / muscleAvg wt$/cwt$/headHead
Medium and Large 1513216.991,11442
Medium and Large 2452214.2696842
Medium and Large 3397203.5080912thin
One grade step is worth $13.50/cwt here — about $305 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 sale96 hd
214.11
—
GA average16 barns · 1,147 hd
195.72
+18.39
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—Average1,860108.502,0197thin
CowsBreaker 75-80%High1,34394.751,2724thin
CowsBoner 80-85%Average1,23187.651,07937
CowsLean 85-90%Average1,02978.4280726

Every lot, as filed

42 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
BullsMedium and Large 1—468238.48/cwt235.00–242.001,1162
BullsMedium and Large 1—615206.96/cwt202.00–212.001,2734
BullsMedium and Large 1—513227.46/cwt225.00–230.001,1672
BullsMedium and Large 1—575211.66/cwt211.00–212.001,2173
BullsMedium and Large 2—520212.33/cwt210.00–217.001,1043
BullsMedium and Large 3—587187.31/cwt185.00–192.001,1003
SteersMedium and Large 2—490240.49/cwt240.00–242.001,1784
SteersMedium and Large 1—732218.73/cwt213.00–223.001,6017
SteersMedium and Large 2—532236.82/cwt230.00–240.001,2609
SteersMedium and Large 1—390281.00/cwt281.00–281.001,09620
SteersMedium and Large 1—620235.00/cwt235.00–235.001,4572
SteersMedium and Large 1—429276.82/cwt275.00–279.001,18815
SteersMedium and Large 1—527244.53/cwt242.00–250.001,28917
HeifersMedium and Large 2—318218.02/cwt215.00–221.006936
HeifersMedium and Large 2—472215.64/cwt210.00–218.001,0187
HeifersMedium and Large 2—431218.60/cwt212.00–220.0094219
HeifersMedium and Large 2—630188.67/cwt188.00–190.001,1893
HeifersMedium and Large 3—516192.45/cwt190.00–200.009934
HeifersMedium and Large 2—525208.86/cwt206.00–210.001,0977
HeifersMedium and Large 1—456222.40/cwt220.00–224.001,0145
HeifersMedium and Large 1—506211.00/cwt211.00–211.001,0685
HeifersMedium and Large 1—605207.00/cwt207.00–207.001,2529
HeifersMedium and Large 1—413227.00/cwt224.00–230.0093811
HeifersMedium and Large 1—563215.56/cwt211.00–216.001,21412
HeifersMedium and Large 3—338209.02/cwt208.00–212.007068
BullsMedium and Large 2—381253.23/cwt250.00–255.009654
BullsMedium and Large 2—430237.27/cwt235.00–238.001,0204
BullsMedium and Large 2—323272.48/cwt270.00–275.008802
BullsMedium and Large 3—474215.88/cwt210.00–227.001,0234
BullsMedium and Large 3—408223.52/cwt220.00–227.009122
BullsMedium and Large 3—515191.35/cwt190.00–192.009853
Bulls——1,888111.24/cwt107.00–114.002,1004
Bulls——1,865118.00/cwt118.00–118.002,2011
Bulls——1,80398.27/cwt97.00–100.001,7722
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,26588.76/cwt85.00–93.001,12321
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,32995.54/cwt94.00–98.001,2705
CowsBoner 80-85%—1,12081.94/cwt80.00–84.0091811
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,250102.00/cwt102.00–102.001,2752
CowsBreaker 75-80%—1,43587.49/cwt87.00–88.001,2552
CowsLean 85-90%—1,00378.05/cwt75.00–82.0078313
CowsLean 85-90%—98084.69/cwt84.00–85.008306
CowsLean 85-90%—1,11873.72/cwt69.00–75.008247

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.